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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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Category Archives: ds106radio
Vinylcast #45: The Alarm’s Eye of the Hurricane
Another #vinylcast on #ds106radio, making it two days in a row. This one was in honor of the fact we have gone into a 3 week lockdown, which… Continue reading
Vinylcast #44: Desire’s Under Your Spell
I had fun doing a Sunday afternoon synthwave #vinylcast featuring Desire‘s Under Your Spell EP, which re-publishes songs from their 2009 album this transparent 2015 vinyl distributed by… Continue reading
Vinylcast #43: Midnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust
Released in 1987 (1988 in the US) Midnight Oil‘s Diesel and Dust was one of my favorite of the 1980s. It opened up both a sonic and political… Continue reading
Vinylcast #42: Cocteau Twins’ Heaven or Las Vegas
I finally returned to the #vinylcast, my favorite way to do #ds106radio. This was an impromptu show after listening to Alex Masters and Lauren Heywood doing their regular… Continue reading
bavawave: Italians Do it Better
This is how it started… This is how good it felt afterwards… I jumped on the radio on a whim last night to try and do some groundwork… Continue reading
Vinylcast #41: Van Halen II Side 2 in Honor of Eddie
I heard the news today, oh boy. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen passed tonight, and like most folks of a certain age he was a ubiquitous icon of the… Continue reading
Vinylcast #40: New Order’s Peel Session (1981)
Another #vinylcast in the can, this one did not come easy, but it was fun. I played a bit with the green screen in OBS, multiple shots from… Continue reading
Uninstalling USB Audio Codec Demo
Or it might also be found more easily under the title “uninstalling usb-driver.com demo driver,” but either way I hope someone else who has this issue avoids wasting as much time as I did on it. 25 minutes of me … Continue reading
Vinylcast #39: Man or Astro-Man?’s Experiment Zero
The idea was simple enough, broadcast a record over ds106radio and ds106tv. I mean I have been around this block before, but nothing comes easy when you are… Continue reading
Cleaning Up My #ds106radio Game
Spinning some tunes and testing some shortcut keys on #ds106radio to nail down my workflow, I mean its only been like 10 years doing this…https://t.co/DQNyRE6sLp Also, getting the tubes warmed up for a chock full Sunday of specials — Jim … Continue reading
