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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Day 99: Star Snoopy Colorform
Without questions Colorform were one of my favorite toys as a kid, and I have a number of them I will feature in this series. I’ll start with the Star Snoopy Colorforms, which was a shameless rip-0ff of everything Star … Continue reading
Day 100: Star Frontiers
Note: Forgive me for being a day late on this one, I am having way too much fun in San Juan, but I give you a big bava promise this won’t happen again. Back in the early 80s I got … Continue reading
Day 101: Snoopy’s Scooter Shooter
Image credit: Wishbook’s “1976.xx.xx JCPenney Christmas Catalog P350” There are a range of Snoopy toys I had as a kid, and I will probably touch on a few more of them before this series is over—although no guarantees given I’m … Continue reading
Day 102: Batman and Robin Talking Alarm Clock
Image credit: Wishbook’s “1976.xx.xx JCPenney Christmas Catalog P349” The Batman and Robin Alarm Clock is one of those rare appliances that actually might qualify as a toy. In many was it is an iconic image of my childhood when I … Continue reading
Train wreck
For all of you out there who deeply question the “system” model, and the idea of hosting this stuff for an institution and making it work on a larger scale. Today I agree with you, for we’ve had nothing but … Continue reading
Day 103: Hub-Bubs
Click on image for larger version. The Hub-Bubs held a kind of special place in my toy heart. They weren’t necessarily popular, or at least I don’t think they were, but they were really fascinating in that they were rather … Continue reading
Day 104: “Emergency! Emergency!” Paramedic Van
Image credit: Wishbook’s “1979.xx.xx Sears Christmas Catalog P597” This was one of those bizarre toys that is right out of something from an early John Waters film , or even Infocult.The whole idea of this toy is macabre, you have … Continue reading
Nobody yardsales like the bava. NOBODY!
Picked up four vintage Shazam! glasses from 1976 at a yard sale this morning. These will no doubt replace the special china we are currently deploying for our bava dinner parties. I love it when the nostalgia I furiously feed … Continue reading
Day 105: Tomy’s Digital Derby
During the late 70s the handheld “digital” games began to make their way onto the market in force. These were some of my favorite games, and they were the portable version of the Atari 2600—which all this is leading to … Continue reading
Day 106: Fisher Price Play Family Castle
Any kid that had a pulse during the 70s in the US would certainly remember this gem of a toy, in fact one of the great Little People play sets of their golden age in the 70s, but just one … Continue reading