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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.
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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.
I am Jim Groom
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Route ds106
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Get your kicks with ds106
With apologies to the original here. #ds1064life

With apologies to New Hampshire’s Route 106
The visual/design assignments for ds106 remain a tremendous amount of fun.
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A titan against a titan!
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The Kraken Rockin’
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Calibos
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bava inc
Cogdog and I were joking around about our blogs, and just how much we put into them, and just how many of you suckers don’t. So here’s to you, 1500+ posts, and the bava is going strong, local and long distance, EST or PST!!!!
Bring it!
Michael Smith you rock!
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Bubo lookout
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Bubo
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Psychedllic Medusa
Just so happens this is the 1500th post on this blog. Long live the bava!
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Stoned by Medusa
With special thanks to Ray Harryhausen, who rules!
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