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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
Eternal Frequencies
Mara Scanlon, who is quickly becoming a blogger extraordinaire, just blogged about a podcast by Nate DiMeo that discusses Guglielmo Marconi vision of sound waves as a crazy idea of eternal recurrence. To quote Mara: According to Nate DiMeo, late … Continue reading
The Shining–The Bathroom Scene
If there is a better scene in all of cinema, it probably comes from The Shining (1980) as well—the first bar scene? But pound for pound the back and forth between Jack and Grady in the unbelievably beautiful set of … Continue reading
Day 96: Strawberry Shortcake figures
There have been some grumblings that the toy series has been dominated by my little boy toys, and I’m sorry about that. But, as fate would have it, I was a little boy, and society did that to me—and I … Continue reading
Help, I’m being stalked!
Over two years ago when the UMW Blogs experiment got started I was really excited and passionate. I stalked many a student in their comments and tried my best to build community. I thought it was the right thing to … Continue reading
Day 97: Funco’s Spider-Man Web Shooter
In 1975 or 76, Funco’s Spider-man Web shooter may have very well been the single greatest thing that happened to me up and until that point. The idea of actually shooting my own dart from my wrist (which I imagined … Continue reading
Just another hole-in-the-wall
Image credit: omphale44‘s “Puerto Rico- Old San Juan Fortress Wall” I’m on the plane back from three days in beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I figured I’d try and capture it before it slips away—something which unfortunately happened with … Continue reading
Day 98: Playskool Rescue Center
Another gem from Playskool in line with their work with the McDonald’s set I already mentioned, the rescue center was filled with all kinds of features from the elevator to the heliport/helicopter with a cable and hook, in fact, let … Continue reading
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