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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
Human Made’s S3 Uploads Plugin
Last year I wrote a bit about the WP Offload Media plugin when we were offloading more than 700 GB of files from Macaulay’s Eportfolios to S3. The plugin did the job, but one of the struggles with this plugin … Continue reading
The Future of Multidimensional Scholarship with Amanda Licastro
Last week Pilot and I spoke with Dr. Amanda Licastro, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Swarthmore College, about everything from the limits and possibilities of virtual reality in higher ed to the challenges of archiving protest signs from Swarthmore’s Peace Collection. … Continue reading
A Shout-Out to the Zilog Z80
As referred to in my previous post, I’ve been struggling to figure out what specific Z80 processor I need to get my spare Scramble PCB working. I had the main processor for the board, which was a Zilog Z80 chip, … Continue reading
Between a Penis and Composting the Rich…
…they’ll take the penis every time! Wait, maybe I should backup here for some context. With the realization of bava.studio I now get outside of the house on a daily basis for a commute of 10 minutes on foot each … Continue reading
RGB: a bava.studio production
This post is long and full of images and text narrating the development of bava.studio over the last six months or so. It’s A LOT, so a quick tour in the video below might work for all you TV babies … Continue reading
Scramble Re-assembled for a Second Time
The game that started the arcade project craze in Italy for me was Scramble. And I took it apart and put it back together for a second time this past weekend after getting it on wheels. Love this cabinet, and … Continue reading
bavacade Repair Log 9-24-2024
It has been a while since a full blown repair log, but that is the upside of having an all but perfect arcade 🙂 But as Chinua Achebe notes, “things fall apart.” So on with the show… When I was … Continue reading
In Search of the Magic Dust with Maren Deepwell
Last week I was invited by the great Maren Deepwell to chat about my experiences with remote working at Reclaim over the last decade, and it was a total blast. As it happens both Maren and I went remote around … Continue reading
The ds106radio Summer of Love Camp
It’s more than a week since the ds106radio Summer Camp wrapped up, and the good vibes are still bouncing around the atmosphere of my little corner of the world wide web. The free and open lofi conference that Maren Deepwell … Continue reading
RetroPie Fun on Reclaim TV
After a month of on-again, off-again attempts to get my RetroPie upgraded to the latest version—which included not only changing the Raspbian OS from Raspbian Stretch to Buster, but also migrating hardware from Raspberry Pi 3B to 4B—I’m now running … Continue reading