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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
Noir Chopper
I am creating a course aggregation site for the current Tech Noir ds106 course, and it’s been a while. Thankfully Alan Levine and Tom Woodward have been kind enough to help me hack the old gold TwentyTwelve WordPress theme to … Continue reading
Mapping My Bathroom Tile
I spent some time this morning using Bryan Mathers’s Remix Machine to map out the tile design for my bathroom re-design, I think it’s going to come out quite well: What’s more, it doubles beautifully as my first Daily Create … Continue reading
The Automated Dark Side of ds106: Tech Noir
I tried to make a ds106 comeback last year with the AI 106 course, but it turns out I wasn’t even up to getting off the couch. It was a long winter, and quite a few of my responsibilities were … Continue reading
Mission Accomplished bava.studio
Feeling pretty good right now. A friend of mine in Trento, Andrea, passed along a message from the Trento Strano group somewhere on WhatsApp—or whereever it is Italians are Italian together online. I had told Andrea, and also mentioned the … Continue reading
At Close Range: Like Father. Like Son. Like Hell?
MBS and I are back at it with yet another installation of the Family Pictures Podcast. “Mark it six, dude!” This time we discuss At Close Range (1986), the neo-noir that’s a vehicle for a remarkable swath of up-and-coming 80s … Continue reading
bavacade Update: 1-5-2025
December was a slow month for arcade repairs given everything else going on, but I did make some progress. In particular, I was able to finally install the Scramble multi-game chip on my spare Scramble board and install it in … Continue reading
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
The ABCs of Blogging: Always Be Commenting
I think it was the great Scottlo that underscored the “Always Be Commenting” mantra while teaching ds106 in Japan, and it’s something I’ve returned to constantly over the last 10+ years—even when not living up to it’s eternal truth. So … Continue reading →