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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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.
I am Jim Groom
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Author Archives: Reverend
AI Maddeness: How (Not) to Blog with AI
In the spirit of the talk at Reclaim Open, I fed the details of the video summary provided by YouTube’s AI into the game preview GPT I created for AI Maddeness. It wrote a post in the “spirit” of how … Continue reading
‘Some caveats / things to note’ or, the bava according to ChatGPT
The blog is quite wide-ranging. If you are looking for very focused, academic writing, you may need to dig into specific posts. The author has a casual, personal tone—so the writing is less formal than peer-reviewed work. While the blog … Continue reading
Family Pictures Podcast at Reclaim Open
As part of Reclaim Hosting’s blogathon during day 1 of Reclaim Open Michael Branson Smith (MBS) and I presented about the “Joy of Podcasting” live on ds106radio. The audio below includes our half-hour discussion around how and why we started … Continue reading
We’re not computers, Sebastian, we’re physical
I guess it makes sense to start a conference about blogging with a blog post about blogging—hello you beautiful Reclaim Open 25 folks! Let’s face it, blogging is a blogger’s favorite topic, right? And these days I’ve been thinking about what it means for blogging to transmogrify (it’s Halloween season, after all) into something else. Continue reading
Halloween Haunted Arcade
It’s been a crazy month, and now it’s time to race to the finish line trying to get the bava.studio’s Halloween Haunted Arcade up and running by Friday the 31st, just in time for Halloween. The diorama has come in … Continue reading
Coming off the AI Maddeness Bye Week
I gave myself a few things to do during the bye week and I’m happy to report I got more than half of them done. The most pressing issue to address was getting the emulated version of Madden 2001 running … Continue reading
Commodore 64C
A strange thing happened on the way to trying to open a Haunted Arcade at bavastudio, someone gave me an original Commodore 64C.* I’ve never seen the re-design of the classic breadbox version of the C64, so it was definitely … Continue reading
Zombie Malls
This post started as a comment on Martin Weller’s post “Meet me by the Blogroll,” but it felt like something I might want to also have on the bava proper, so here we are. Martin’s post draws a parallel between … Continue reading
10 Years a Stranger
It’s hard to believe I just passed the 10 year mark in Italy.* At this point all my kids have spent more of their lives as residents of Italy than the US. When we take our family trips back to … Continue reading
Halloween Diorama
It’s literally gonna be a Halloween (1978) diorama, in particular the scene when Michael Meyers briefly appears from behind the hedge. The bav-o-rama has had the Grady sisters of The Shining fame gracing its presence for the last 4 months, … Continue reading