BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026can hang out and chat about their English lessons or bounce through any topics that people raise. I often have long conversations with 5 or 6 others, each of us in a different country and time-zone. Balkun is growing rapidly and is getting more students and needs to find more Mentors. If you’ve 100
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026have 2 mentees that I meet with online each week. We talk and listen to each other, mostly in English. We read stories and discuss words that are new or unknown. I taught physics and mathematics for 15 years in earlier days, but this is my first experience as an english teacher. I use resources on 100
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m a supporter of Ukraine. I’ve donated money to send trucks, drones and first aid, but can’t make any significant change with the few Euros that I can afford to donate. I started offering a different kind of support in February when I joined an organization called Balakun. balakun.org 120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The garden has been productive this year. In the last few days I've been gathering potatoes, apples, summer squash, cucumbers and figs. 291
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I'm with you about flowers. I mostly plant stuff to eat, but this year I've been adding more flowers just to confuse or deter the nasty invaders from the edible goodies. 110
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 26/04/2026April showers bring May flowers... April is nearly over and rain is brewing overhead. Around our home, the flowers of May have been popping up everywhere. Here are a few. 130
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I'm loving the Iranian Lego videos slamming our moron-in-chief, but I think they need to come out with a line of physical Lego trump figures and military props so we can all join in with mocking this petulant child. Anyone got a contact in the Iranian propaganda division to pass this idea to? 010
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I saw it breathing. After lightly stroking it, it flew off! Yea! I'm hoping it recovered completely and I added a hole to the side of the greenhouse high up where I think future trapped birds can find the outlet. 021
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026It just kept flying back and forth. In the early morning I went to look for it and found it on a branch of a nasturtium plant, ib the semi comma as they do at night. I cut the branch off and carried it to a heating pad on the back deck. After a few minutes, it started moving slightly and #rescue 111
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026A couple days ago and hummingbird found its way into our greenhouse but couldn't find its way out. I put a couple hummer feeders near an open window and by the large open door, but when I went back hours later at night it was still there. Couldn't figure out how to free #hummingbird #wildlife 121
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026nearly 4 feet tall already. This is the biggest and most varied garden I've ever grown. I'm looking forward harvesting and eating the crops over the next months. 120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I've already pulled radishes out of the ground and picked a handful of snap peas from 8 foot tall vines in our greenhouse. A dozen summer squashes are nearly big enough to eat, cucumbers are climbing the trellises I set up this year, and some of the corn stalks are 110
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026April showers have been racing through Northern California with a vengeance for the last week or so, watering the hundreds of plants I've been putting into our raised beds, cloth bags and cardboard boxes during the record breakingly warm spring weather this year! #garden #food 130
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The No Kings rally was well attended in Chico, CA today. Some images follow. 130
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I live in Oroville where we have the great big dam and lots of flowing water almost always, but yea, most of the state is close to desert conditions. Politics here are deep red; that is hard to deal with, but I'm surrounded with forebays and ag channels even on the 110 degree days. Lots of orchards 110
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I spent most of the day replanting seeds I've been starting in my little greenhouse. I'm making 'seed snails' to start seeds. Don't know if you're familiar with them, but search youtube for that term. Results have been amazingly good, and I will be using this method from now on! (Alt tags!) 120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026of worthwhile links are listed here. Best viewed on laptop or bigger screen. wizzard.com wizzard.com/burningman art.wizzard.com/bobsgirls yarn.wizzard.com globes.wizzard.com wizzard.com/mavericks 111
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I've not updated the site for a couple years and never really put any effort into making it accessible to mobile so have decided to let it pass into history. To the dozen or so people who follow me and actually see this post: stop by in the next day or 2 or never again. A couple of the thousands 120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026for 3 decades. Early on, I offered free world globe images and animated gifs that I made in a 3D program. I'd see them occasionally as I surfed around. When I started going to Burningman in 1998, I started loading gigabytes of images from the event each year till 2023, my last year of attending. 100
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026of web sites was around 25,000. Today the number is ~1.1 billion. This is all preamble to the topic of my post today. In the next 2 days I'm shutting my site down after 30+ years & over a million visitors. Wizzard.com is entirely a vanity site I've been using to show off my art and ramblings 220
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026introducing the internet to people who were often seeing the web for the first time. I was designing customer webpages that you would laugh at today. By the end of 1994, the internet hosted 2738 web sites. In 1995, when Amazon and AltaVista were started I also started my own site when the number 100
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Bottom line: I'm retiring my personal website, wizzard.com, tomorrow after 3 decades and more than a million visitors. (If you want to visit, a screen bigger than your phone is suggested.) ****** The longer version follows here: 30+ years ago, in a down stairs store in Palo Alto, CA we were 340
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 27/11/2025of the excess persimmon branches on his huge tree to give us some of my favorite fruit! I'm thankful for many things including friends and to be living in a land that grows food in such abundance. #food #fruit #thanks 070
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans or others who celebrate it! My wife and I dropped off small gifts to our favorite farmer yesterday and he loaded us up with veggies from his greenhouse. As in the past he also used the occasion of our visit to trim off some #food #Thanksgiving 190
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 22/11/2025week or so. Silicone glue forms a skin quickly, but takes a while to completely cure. I'll have to scrape it away a couple times before I'm satisfied its done. The next and last update will show the finished piece standing up with as much light shining through as I can manage. #art #sculpture 170
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 22/11/2025with the Aleutians, & lots of cleaning. it's finally sealed into its box of glass! It is still horizontal on the table as I'm letting the glue harden for several days before standing it up to finish the last task of cleaning the excess glue from sealing it up. That will take a #art #sculpture 381
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Glass Maps 21: 99.9% done This is the second to last update in this chapter of the building of glass world maps. (I've already printed a smaller map for the next chapter.) Yea; after many delays, re-gluing Hawaii 2 times when I'd bump it trying to clean the map, similar issues #art #sculpture 190
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025From No Kings rally and march today 18oct25 in Chico, CA. Looked a lot bigger than the first one to me. #no kings #Chico, CA 1120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Glass Maps 20: more showing off. One more video at the Reveal party. (See previous post) #Art #Sculpture 131
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025the 77lb bundled up map to the kitchen table. Only my wife and I knew what was in the bundle we brought. Here is the the moments of revelation. #Art #Sculpture 360
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Glass Maps 19:the Reveal My wife & I bundled up Map B and drove it to Galena, Illinois where we met my brother & his wife who came from the Philadelphia area. My other brother joined us from Michigan. Shortly after we moved our suitcases into a B&B, my brothers brought #Art #Sculpture 120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025interesting plants and flowers. Here are a few of the exotic animals. #art #sculpture 070
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025a few dozen imaginary animals from several Hispanic artists next to the (Mississippi?) river in beautiful grassy Park. Each was surrounded by a rope perimeter that was also landscaped with #art #sculpture 191
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Art tour continued. As we left House of Balls (see previous post), Allen's wife told us we should visit another outdoor art sculpture nearby in St. Paul, MN. Raspberry Island Park features #sculpture #art 180
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2025is his birthday today and he was feeling down and he thanked us for lifting his mood. Nice guy and fellow burner and I wish his gallery was a thousand miles closer to our home. Happy Birthday Allen! #art #sculpture 030
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2025filled with hundreds of art pieces and seeing everything in the 2 hours we spent with Allen would be impossible. The kinda place that you see something new every time you look again. An added bonus was that it #art #sculpture #travel 120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2025balls I later learned). Minneapolis was still ahead of us but 100 miles out of the way, but what's a meer 100 miles for someone I HAD TO SEE. Worth every mile! I will recommend it to anyone who loves wacky sculpture. The place isn't huge but is big enough to be #art #sculpture 120
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Art tour! When visiting the outdoor sculpture walk yesterday and then talking to the sculptor Wayne about my art at burningman and otherwise he told me YOU HAVE TO GO SEE ALAN! Alan has a studio space in Minneapolis called House of Balls (his early art involved carving bowling #art #sculpture 160
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Just before sunset we visited an outdoor collection of interesting art all made by one guy named Wayne. #sculpture #travel #art 1100
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The third stop was a 50 foot tall native American woman near the Missouri River named Dignity of Earth and Sky. Impressive! #art #sculpture #travel 180
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The second site was seen in close up for an Afred Hitchcock movie whose name I can't recall right now. (Anyone tell me the name withoutme looking it up?) #travel #Presidents #sculpture 330
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Close encounters of the second kind? Stopped by to see a couple well known chunks of rock, a very large woman and an impressive collection of sculptures in a long drive in South Dakota and figured I should share them. The first stop was made famous in a SciFi film. #travel #geology #sculpture 380
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Posted an image a Buffalo while in Montana. Today on Buffalo Wyoming, we had a sasquatch sighting! I love traveling in the west! #travel #roadtrip #wildlife 030
BobMarzewski @bmarzewski.bsky.social · 06/09/2025than meerly boiling water. At the very end it takes all my upper body strength to keep stirring as the water dissappear. Then it's time to dump it out onto a wire screen I only use for this one task. When it cools a bit, into jars it goes. Below the wire is another benefit, #food 110