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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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Category Archives: fun
Nobody yardsales like the bava. NOBODY!
Picked up four vintage Shazam! glasses from 1976 at a yard sale this morning. These will no doubt replace the special china we are currently deploying for our bava dinner parties. I love it when the nostalgia I furiously feed … Continue reading
BlackBoard PSA: The Elephant in the Room
Special thanks to Andy Rush for the tagline and a special guest photoshop genius from the visiting the Serena Epstein.
Hippie Skippy
Because I can… Image credit: Wishbook‘s “1986.01.xx Garbage Pail Kids 091b (Recto)”
I just shaved
Shorn – Jim Groom Bares It All from Tom Woodward on Vimeo. Update: The YouTube video below is a relic from my now terminated YouTUbe account (7/13/12). Tom Woodward and I, we’re making art now.
Zombieland
Zombieland looks to be a Hollywood highlight reel made up of the most creative ways to kill zombies, which is absolutely something I can get behind these days.
What’s your favorite performance of literature?
OK, I just stopped in at the great Terry Kennedy’s Literature in Performance blog, and I noticed the students were starting to post examples of poetry readings found around the web. One student, LoneEagle, actually put a clip up from … Continue reading
“Disco hippies gone wild in the forest”
When searching for an image for my last post, I came across this image which led me to this video. What we have here is Tommy Seebach’s rendition of “Apache,” an artefact that confirms my belief that nothing good ever came … Continue reading
The Chronic Mock
Tom Woodward is at it again, his recent rash (does 2 constitute a rash?) of mock Chronicle articles are downright hilarious. Be sure to check out “Student Brainwashing Proves Effective” and “Colleges Consider Using Human Skin Instead of BlackBoard.” What … Continue reading
“When there’s no underbrush, the tree looks taller”
I really don’t know how to even begin and try and introduce this one, save that it just proves that the 70s was a far superior decade 🙂 Via Cartoon Brew