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@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
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-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
Archiving 20 Years of the bava
One of my projects for 2025 is to spend time each day reviewing all the posts I’ve written on a specific day since December of 2005. Twenty years of blogging is a pretty significant milestone, and it provides a good … Continue reading
Be More Bea
The designer I worked with for the Creepshow diorama “Something to Tide You Over” added the project to her website. I have to say it looks pretty awesome! I love the way she highlights the four panels created for the … Continue reading
More Retrogaming Fun with Batocera
My colleague Noah Dorsett turned me on to Batocera a few weeks back, and over the holiday break I took some time to install it and mess around—and I’m glad I did! Batocera is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming … Continue reading
A Christmas Story about the Atari 2600
MBS and I continue to make the doughnuts on the Family Pictures Podcast, episode 5 discussing the 1983 classic A Christmas Story is in the can. I’m really proud we’ve been able to keep the momentum up these last couple … Continue reading
Blog OR DIE!
Mark Corbett Wilson put together the above minute-long clip taken from the inaugural Reclaim Rewind 2024 event earlier this month. It features Maren Deepwell prompting me to discuss our company montra over the last several months, namely “Blog OR DIE!” … Continue reading
Bavastudio One Year Later
I just realized that one year ago yesterday I moved into bava.studio, beginning an odyssey of fits and starts over the last 12 months. As might be expected, I have blogged the process pretty thoroughly. It’s hard to express how … Continue reading
Retropie Overscan Settings for 27″ CRT
I currently have two Retropie setups: one on a Raspberry Pi 3b and the other on a Raspberry Pi 4b. I did this to work through some issues I was having getting the OS updated from the Raspbian Stretch to … Continue reading
Atari 2600 on the 3DS
Atari 2600 emultaion running on a 3DS About 7 or 8 years ago I figured out how to bypass region-lock on the Nintendo 3DS so my kids could play the games we bought in Italy. With the release of the … Continue reading
Night of the Comet: Sisterhood in the Apocalypse
Can’t stop, won’t stop! MBS and I are back for yet another episode of the Family Pictures Podcast—mark it 4, dude! This time we’re exploring the theme of sisterhood at the edge of forever in the 1984 b-movie cult classic … Continue reading
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