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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 #14: Kraftwerk’s Computer World
Antonella and I did another update on the radio, which was very fun, and then we played Kraftwerk’s Computer World from 1981. We had a lot of back… Continue reading
vinycast #13: The National’s Trouble Will Find Me
Today was another fun show, Antonella joined me for a good part of the two and a half hour broadcast which featured update from day 15 of lockdown… Continue reading
vinylcast #12: Hits on Film
Today’s show was a lot of fun, and a much lighter air than yesterday’s broodcast. I was experimenting with a new setup I blogged here, and vinyl and… Continue reading
Loopback How-to for ds106radio
A few folks have asked me the easiest way to get on ds106radio, so I figured I would document the setup I am currently stealing from Tim Owens—surprise, surprise 🙂 He shared his Loopback setup, which is a paid application … Continue reading
bavaradio: Some ds106radio Notes
Note bene: I started writing this post 2 days ago (it was actually the 11th day of lockdown, not the 10th), but things have gotten a bit more intense since. Tinkering with this blog and writing throw away posts has … Continue reading
vinylcast #11: Cat Power’s What Would the Community Think
Today’s #vinylcast was a bit hard for me cause I was down. I was feeling the weight of 13 days in lockdown, and the news was not helping…. Continue reading
vinylcast #10: John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things
Yesterday’s #vinylcast was Coltrane’s My Favorite Things, and it was like mana for an ailing soul. Didn’t know how much I needed it, here are the tweets during… Continue reading
vinylcast #9: X’s Under the Big Black Sun
Woke up and read the news that California’s governor was asking all Californians to stay at home, the lock-down we had been experiencing for more than a week… Continue reading
vinylcast #8: The Pogue’s Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
I missed St. Patrick’s Day in the craziness of the lockdown, but I tried to make up for it a couple of days late and more than a… Continue reading
vinylcast #7: The Replacements’s Let it Be
On deck for the #ds106radio with an update from Northern Italy and then I am gonna Let it Be on the #vinylcast https://t.co/vXRNHb42Qc pic.twitter.com/tDgZfDU8yF — Jim Groom (@jimgroom)… Continue reading