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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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Tag Archives: bava
A bava Dossier
Tom Woodward and I just finished a fun discussion celebrating 20 years of bavatuesdays (I’m milking this for all I can). I’ll post that video tomorrow as the 4,000th post because I think it’s appropriate. In preparation for the discussion … Continue reading
But is it Blog Worthy?
One of the things I started thinking about as I make the final push toward 4,000 posts (this is 3,995) is the length of posts. I joked about “goosing the numbers” to reach my goal, but baked into that joke … Continue reading
Blog OR DIE!
Mark Corbett Wilson put together the above minute-long clip taken from the inaugural Reclaim Rewind 2024 event earlier this month. It features Maren Deepwell prompting me to discuss our company montra over the last several months, namely “Blog OR DIE!” … Continue reading
It Came from the bava Archive, Volume 1
Back in September I installed the On This Day plugin to start trying to review and clean-up the bava archive on a more regular basis. With almost 4,000 posts, this blog has accumulated a lot of jettisoned media and broken … Continue reading
The Boy Who Streamed Too Much
So after digging in on the streaming for Reclaim Karaoke Tuesday night, I turned to preparing a discussion about Mario Bava’s seminal giallo film The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963). That discussion happened last night, and it was streamed … Continue reading
All Roads Lead Back to the Blog
Well, the only good thing about being away from the bava.blog for more than a month is the tried and true joy of blogging about not blogging. Or blogging about the will to blog. Or blogging about how no one … Continue reading
Introducing Danger: Diabolik to a Live-Streamed Audience
A year ago Antonio Vantaggiato invited Paul Bond and I into his Italian Cinema course to talk about Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963). I was fairly new to Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) at the time, but … Continue reading
Holy Clustered Cloudlets, bava!
The last month needed to be a deep dive into the Reclaim Cloud, and I think I have held up my end. I migrated quite a few old sites, namely bavaghost, this blog (a couple of times), ds106 (a couple … Continue reading
Missing MySQL Extension
In fact, the full error I received when trying to upgrade my WordPress instance running on Centos 7 in a Digital Ocean droplet was the following: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by … Continue reading
5 Top GIFs on the bava according to Kinsta’s Analytics
I’ve been a bit distracted by the outside world, as you all can imagine. I have to say I feel like Northern Italy has been going through the Corona Virus cycle for weeks now (my kids have been out of … Continue reading