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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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Author Archives: Reverend
Spider-Man 1967, Episode 23: “Swing City”
”Swing City”: A mad scientist takes control of a power station and uses it to energize his anti-gravity device. Meanwhile, Peter Parker finally lands a date and must decide whether or not to break it to save the city. Suffice … Continue reading
Spider-Man 1967, Episode 22: ”King Pinned”
It’s been a while, but the kids are enjoying a snow day today, so we need something to do! “The Origin of Spider-Man”: Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and soon finds that he has gained the arachnid’s … Continue reading
“Parade” by People Like Us
Another gem from the RSS reader from Ubuweb: People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) | U.K. Back to People Like Us in UbuWeb Film Parade (2009) A word from the artist… While viewing and sourcing content from the Great North Run … Continue reading
Blind Date from Hell
Catchig up on my RSS reader is always a joy, and one of the most consistent and indisposable YouTube filters in my reader is the Media Funhouse blog, without fail there are at least 5 or ten posts that lead … Continue reading
Santa Cogdog
As some of you may know, I have been posting a boatload about toys over the past three or four months, I still have four more posts to write, but I wonder if this one isn’t a fitting end to … Continue reading
A response to David’s response :)
This is a comment I left on David Wiley’s post “Responses to the Rev and Stephen on ‘Openness’”, it’s extremely long, and should really be read in the context of the post on David’s blog, but for posterity I wanted … Continue reading
Who provides the seats at an open table?
Image credit: Torley’s “architecture” I’m following the beginnings of George Siemens‘ and David Wiley’s discussion of the term open as it relates to the open education movement with great interest. I’m fascinated by the various connotations a term takes on … Continue reading
Have a very betamaxmas
With just 45 minutes left in what has been an amazing Christmas at la casa bava, I’d just like to send out some warm season greetings from the mighty bava to all my loyal subjects. And as a special thank … Continue reading
Day 5: Star Wars Figures, the Original 12
The original 12, not the apostles mind you, but more importantly the 3.75″ Star Wars figures released in 1978 that ushered in a new institution in toy franschises and arguably one of the earliest signs of the immense consumer-driven fan … Continue reading
Day 6: Coleco’s Head-to-Head Football
Darcy Norman posted about a Retro LED Footbal game a long while back, and in 1980 I got the Coleco Head-to-Head Football game, a handheld video game for two players, and absolutely the most memorable and fun of the handheld … Continue reading