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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.
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Author Archives: Reverend
Celebrate the Holidays with Reclaim
As we enter the final stretch before the holidays, I wanted to share a couple of festive events on tap this week as part of Reclaim Rewind 2024. First up is the Community Chat on Wednesday, December 18th at 12 … Continue reading
Working through Home with Mr. Mom
MBS and I are on a serious roll with the Family Pictures Podcast as we drop episode 3: “The Roles We Play – Mr. Mom.” What I’m finding as we continue to focus on movies from 1983 is how the … Continue reading
A WordPress Multiregion Recap
I started writing about running (or trying to run) a WordPress Multiregion (WPMR) instance of this blog in November of 2021. So over 3 years ago now. WordPress Multi-Region on Reclaim Cloud Since then I’ve written eleven posts tagged wpmr … Continue reading
Peter Sellers Does Michael Caine
A few days ago I came across this video of Peter Sellers doing a brilliant Michael Caine impression on a 70s TV show. It’s simply too good not to share. It led me down a Sellers rabbit hole, and like … Continue reading
The Outsiders: Listen for Jimmy!
I guess it’s getting pretty serious between MBS and I, because we went ahead and did another episode of the Family Pictures Podcast. In this episode we discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of S.E. Hinton‘s classic YA novel The Outsiders … Continue reading
The Shining Diorama
Update: if you are looking for the actual finished diorama, go to the end of this rather looking making-of post. Now that the BAV-O-RAMA is up and running cleanly, with signage and everything, it’s high time I start thinking about … Continue reading
BAV-O-RAMA and RGB Signage
Antonella said the bav-o-rama with signage looks like a painting, and that is why I love her so! This week I’ve been working on getting the DIY placards installed at the bava.studio and upping my LED light game. I worked … Continue reading
bavacade Update 11-24-2024
I once again have a 100% working arcade, huzzah! Most of the work these days is shoring up the rest of the cabinets to get rid of any structural issues and put them on wheels. There are only two cabinets … Continue reading
The Hitcher: Never Pick Up a Stranger in Portland
Picking up on my last post about how much PDX rules, let me pile on a bit more. The day after I arrived Zach took me to the Hollywood Theatre to see The Hitcher (1986) in 35mm. Approaching the amazing … Continue reading
Still Unwinding
It’s just over a month since re-living the glory days of 1994 at Portland’s Revolution Hall. The show was billed as Unwound playing their 1994 album New Plastic Ideas. That was reason enough to go to the show, and I … Continue reading