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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
Halloween Nostalgia: The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch
Ok, so besides the Toxic Avenger, New Jersey had one other amazing cultural treasure: The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch Anyone who lived in the New York/New Jersey area during the 70s and 80s probably has some memories of this … Continue reading
Why I want to move to Tokyo
Linktribution Jack Turner’s Thought Bucket
Planet Terror: “Just like your video games”
After all the fun we had in our discussion about Death Proof, I broke down and watched Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. If I was tepid on Tarantino’s films before Death Proof, my feelings towards Rodriguez’s work was bordering on hostile. … Continue reading
Flash Gordon, Ming the Merciless, and Me
I recently received a year-long subscription to FilmFax as a present from my special lady friend. The gift came with a photocopied insert, making the pleasures of this package two-fold: 1) receiving my favorite magazine on a regular basis and … Continue reading
Monster bava
Click for full version I am monsterized, and so can you! Thanks for this Zach! Update: Just found the Boing Boing post about the Monster Sticker here.
The UMW Blogs Twilight Zone
I guess I have been having too much fun on UMW Blogs featuring faculty and students blogs. But this evening something happened to me, something so strange it invokes the smoke smooth voice of the great Rod Serling, “Next stop, … Continue reading
Werewolf Women of the S.S.
Another gem from Check out My Fumanchu. Here are the details: Part of the Grindhouse series revived by Quinten Tarentino and Robert Rodrigez, there were a lot of false trailers. One I stumbled upon was a fake trailer created by … Continue reading
Despite all my rage…
…I’m still just a rat in a cage. To play upon a reading. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/1bjtV24MDzk” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] How do you like your beady-eyed devils now, Mr Death!
D’Arcy converted by Reverend, a brief history
Brief History: Well, I’m going to do a little history here because this picture is particularly special to me. When I first started blogging almost two years ago there was one blog in particular I used to model my own. … Continue reading
“When you mess with the bull…”
“…you get the horns.” Thanks to D’Arcy for feeding this insatiable beast!