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-Joe McMahon
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-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
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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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Category Archives: art
The Blog that Knew Too Much
Today I picked up this very large, colorful French film poster for Mario Bava’s 1963 film giallo The Girl Who Knew Too Much. It’s pretty special, and not just because it’s a cool piece of vintage film poster art for … Continue reading
St. Zeno and St. Anastasia walk into a Burger Joint in Verona
In an effort to organize the over 8000 photos I took this year and generally catch up on some blogging of my travels since January (see this post for more rationale/navel gazing) I’m gonna start with my most recent day … Continue reading
Scenes from a Saturday in Melbourne
Writing a post to sum up my time in Melbourne would be far too daunting—even for such a formidable blogger as il bavalino. So, I am going to do two things: break up my posts and try and capture the … Continue reading
Dead Moocmen Live
Bryan Mathers is a genius. Have I said that already?
Make Some Noise
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a conversation I had with Bryan Mathers at OER17 regarding the new default splash page for new accounts on Reclaim Hosting. I got so taken away with Bryan’s Dali take on Reclaim that I … Continue reading
Reclaiming with No Regrets
Yesterday was like Christmas at Reclaim Hosting, we got a bunch of new art for the Reclaim Hosting aesthetic (it’s all about the aesthetic!) from the brilliant Bryan Mathers. We’ve been working together pretty regularly over the last 8 months … Continue reading
Jaws Diorama
I was just searching the term “digital diorama” which Vint Cerf used during his Decentralized Web Summit talk, which I really enjoyed. So, a quick search led me far afield as usual, and I came across this unbelievably gorgeous diorama thefigurecollector.com … Continue reading
She-Devil with a Wallet
On my way out of Fredericksburg yesterday I stopped off at the Art Gallery/Studio Ponshop to pickup up a new comic wallet. Almost two years ago I bought the Hulk wallet there, and I was due for an upgrade. I love(d) my … Continue reading
That’s a Cinematic Parking Garage
The spring issue of Cinema Retro has a feature on the 1976 version of King Kong as well as an article on Orca: the Killer Whale (1977). Great reading, now I’m gonna have to re-watch both films this month. A short bit … Continue reading
Puny Wallet! Hulk Smash!
I got a new wallet this weekend, and everytime I use it out to pay for something I get a compliment. That’s been foreign reality to me for a long while. And I enjoyed it so much I figured I would throw a couple … Continue reading