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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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Peter Sellers Does Michael Caine
A few days ago I came across this video of Peter Sellers doing a brilliant Michael Caine impression on a 70s TV show. It’s simply too good not to share. It led me down a Sellers rabbit hole, and like … Continue reading