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-James D. Calder
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-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: fun
After this there will be no more good clean online fun
I’m not sure how it happened, but I found myself poking some fun at Matt Crosslin and Brian Lamb on Twitter based on this exchange: "Online learning should be fast, fun, crazy, unplanned, and inspirational." I worry about statements like … Continue reading
Alta Via 2 Post Mortem
Right before New Year’s I pushed myself to finally organize and publish the images from the hike Antonella and I took through the Dolomiti mountains this August. I actually wrote 3 posts while in the clutches of the hike—one for … Continue reading
Partying Like it’s 2009
I’ve been on a bit of a mission to try and get my digital house in order. I’ve been catching up on uploading and organizing photos on Flickr and I’ve been blogging like its my job. That feels good, but … Continue reading
Orgaminized
It’s that time of year to get orgaminized. You get it? You remember that joke Travis Bickle tells in Taxi Driver, don’t you? Yeah, I know. Turns out I was misquoting the joke, something I often do when trying to … Continue reading
Reclaim Remix ‘n’ Match: a Visual Thinkery Production
I do love myself some Visual Thinkery creativeness, and I’m not gonna lie, when it invokes Reclaim Hosting I am a complete sucker 🙂 Bryan Mather’s latest twist metaphor for the Remix Machine is the Flip Book, and it is … Continue reading
48 Divided by 12 is a Quarter
I’m in a kind of reflective mood these days, I turn 48 tomorrow, and for me that is a kinda a strange numerological milestone. I often think of my life in batches of seven years, it seems to be a … Continue reading
Playing with Paperspace
While I was back in Fredericksburg earlier this month Tim was exploring how to run a gaming machine in the cloud. As crazy as it seems, it is now possible. The reason behind the search was to explore setting up … Continue reading
Alta Via 2, Day 5: Happy Trails
Unlike the previous 4 posts in this series, there was never even a fragment of a post for the fifth day of our Alta Via hike. In fact, I’m composing this exactly 5 months after the final day of our … Continue reading
Alta Via Day 4 Or, IWDRM Or, 666 the Trail of the Beast
It was hard to leave Rifugio Gardenacia [sic], as I mentioned in my last post, it ruled! But onward we must go, the forced march stops for no man or woman (and all those on the spectrum)! We were leaving … Continue reading
Alta Via Day 3 Or, the High Plains Drifters
I wrote this post on August 7th, the evening following a magical third day of our hike through the Dolemites. You can read the post about day 1 here and day 2 here. I was able to write three posts … Continue reading
