User talk:Anna Frodesiak

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Hemiauchenia (talk) 13:17, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Good news! You don't need to remember how to do these after all. User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap. Cheers. -- asilvering (talk) 19:12, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi asilvering. That's good news. Boy, those script people are really good at improving things. So much has changed. Thanks! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:27, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

And thank you, for handling that ORCP with such kindness. -- asilvering (talk) 22:36, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

	Infinite Possibilities
	Is this real life? Yes! Is this going to be forever? No! Elvis is getting ready to leave the building and 2026 is about to be born, kicking and screaming. They say nothing gold can stay, but I say, don't listen to them, stay golden all the same. Here's to a new year of infinite diversity and beautiful combinations! Viriditas (talk) 21:52, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello, my dear old friend. It is very nice to hear from you. I've been meaning to drop you a line.

You know, you have always seemed to be the most 'right-next-door' Wikipedian (and Susan next over). I mean, in my imagination, how I picture you, (I guess your user and talk pages), you are right next to me. I guess it's because you were the first person who really helped me when I started. It was my account and your account, and I didn't see much beyond that. Odd, isn't it.

I'm not sure if I ever thanked you. Well, thank you, very much. You were a wonderful mentor. You helped me with Kamilo Beach, the dirtiest beach, if I remember right.

Anyway, I ramble maudlinesquely (a perfectly cromulent word).

It is nice to see that you are still editing. I read something on your userpage recently about how it's all become a farce. I get the very strong impression that many articles have been hijacked by baddies who seek to cleanse content about dirty organizations and disparage dissidents who point out the BS of the mainstream, corporate media's mono-view. Am I imagining things? According to this giant rabbit next to me, I have that tendency.

Oh, and happy holidays to you too!! :)

Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:39, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Good to hear from you as always. I will link to Harvey so people don't think we've lost our marbles! BTW, I'm about to learn whether avocado goes well on pizza. Wish me luck! Viriditas (talk) 00:24, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! It will probably turn brown and be gross. Consider adding some to one half before you cook it, and half to the other side after it's cooked and see which you like best. You'll probably end up with at least half a good pizza. Do let us know if you survive. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:50, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

I'm not as stupid as I look! I only added the avocado after the pizza was cooked. It was okay, but not my thing. I decided to try again later and added it to some angel hair pasta. It wasn't bad. Enjoy the holidays and keep warm. Viriditas (talk) 21:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

I totally would have cooked it. Enjoy your holidays too. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:09, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

BTW, I've been putting chopped broccoli on my homemade pizza for years now. Apparently there's an animated film (I think?) that makes fun of this practice, but I haven't seen it (I looked it up, it's called Inside Out. Any good?), I just saw someone talking about it on Reddit which made me think they were talking about me! It's surprisingly good, but it needs some kind of sauce, which I haven't quite figured out. Obviously, the non-pizza sauce thing has caught on, with chains in the states offering a variety of different sauces you can drizzle or dip. Any ideas what would be good on broccoli as a sauce? Viriditas (talk) 00:19, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Viriditas! Inside Out is one of the last great Pixar films. Now they are rubbish.

I guess cheese sauce. Cheese sauce is great on brocolli.

Do you know what's big here? Durian on pizza. Nicknamed 'stenchfruit' by me, it smells like garbage, tastes like rotting fruit, looks like pus, and hurts your hands when touched. Just the thought of that is awful. If that fruit made a gross noise when you cut into it, it would offend all 6 senses! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:42, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, the durian jokes are old school internet! You should have seen the internet in the early 1990s. There wasn't a single day that someone wouldn't start a 500 comment discussion thread on how bad durian smells. IIRC, most of them came from followers of James "Kibo" Parry. Viriditas (talk) 23:43, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

My jokes are original me! The subject is old school internet. Don't tempt me to prove it by inventing rhyming orange jokes!

I'm bored with starting articles about some stupid building here. You know what I like. I want to start a page where everyone rushes in and turns it into something amazing, like List of sandwiches, but not List of wealthiest animals, which was a stupid idea from the get-go. Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:29, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I wish you had asked me back in December of last year. I created a list of unusual articles to create. Don't know what happened to it, but I could try to find it and get back to you. Here's something funny to consider: I created the article on Marie Engle based on this old photo from 1890. If you zoom in, you can see that I made part of it clickable, and her face showed up. This led me down quite a rabbit hole. First, I was able to identify her and start the article. But then, it turns out, there's a larger mystery as to why her photo was on the ship, which led to some very unusual ideas, some of which are mentioned on the talk page. Long story short, she was a famous opera singer at the time, but there's no real reason her photo should be on that ship unless that ship had taken her to Europe (or at least on one leg of the journey) which is a possibility given that she shows up on some of the manifests related to the company. But it gets even more interesting. It looks like she was going under another name related to a very high profile politician at the time. Curiouser and curiouser. She was already divorced at the time, but when her ex-husband died much later, the NYT lied about the date of her divorce for some strange reason. Viriditas (talk) 00:56, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

If you do bump into that "list of unusual articles to create", I'd be very interested.

The Engle matter is very interesting. It's all sordid and Epsteinian. Quite the detective you are too. And well done with the article.

You remind me of my late mum. She bought lots of old photos from rummage sales. We would sometimes sit down together and look for clues about the people in them -- easy stuff as we were kids, like wedding rings and if they were left-handed and things. It was wonderful. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:26, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind compliment. Your late mum sounds wonderful. My condolences on her passing. I know exactly the kind of memory you are describing, and it's remarkable that we share these idealized moments, sitting down on the couch, looking at photos. It's so interesting that we can draw from similar archetypal memories, these same things, same events, happened to most of us, yet we are all different and individualized. Which reminds me of something that happened to me last year: I was working on A Balloon in Mid-Air when I stumbled across these old photos about Woodward's Gardens. You can see some of them in those two articles, but the one that really disturbed me isn't used anywhere, it's only in the commons cat. This is one in the series that I'm talking about, but there are others. Anyway, when I saw this photo I started ruminating on the fact that all of these people were dead, long gone. Then I started looking at their hats and facial hair, which got me thinking about the style at the time. Card Zero shared a glorious quote that you will love, so read that discussion! As these things often do, one thing led to another, and I ended up on the bio article about Eadweard Muybridge, who was involved in a dangerous stagecoach crash which apparently left him with some kind of brain damage. Thankfully, this terrible event gave us what became known as the modern motion picture. Viriditas (talk) 10:43, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Wow. You write good. Me no good you as. (Hey, I sounded a bit like Coco the gorilla there, and I wrote it with buttons....using my knuckles.) Seriously, A Balloon in Mid-Air is so good. I just don't have the noodle to put together such an article.

Loved the pic! They all look like tall Toulouse-Lautrecs. Actually, I didn't know so many Americans had beards at that time.

I read the quote twice and laughed twice. Priceless are "...stuffily unsuitable..." and "...religion bulked large...". Not sure about "...evasively hirsute...". Terrific points at the end about how the "The beard could take the place of..." and "It could serve, and did serve, as..."

All those connections! You seem to love them as much as James Burke did. If you haven't seen his Connections and The Day the Universe Changed, do have a watch.

I just went to Eadweard Muybridge and can't see how his accident gave us the modern motion picture. Do tell. Oddly, there, I see hirsute impressionists. Did all the men in the world have daft beards back then??

Thanks for taking the time to show me those things. It is appreciated. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:53, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Muybridge was a book seller before his accident. While recuperating from his injuries his doctor recommended photography. His interest led to the zoopraxiscope which was built to project his chronophotographic pictures. A lecture by Muybridge in 1888 influenced Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson, leading to the combination of the zoopraxiscope and the Edison phonograph in 1895. If the random stagecoach accident had never occurred, history would have been slightly different. Further, one doctor believes the brain injury freed "his creativity from conventional social inhibitions", contributing to his success with discovery and invention. Viriditas (talk) 20:23, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Ahhh, the connection. Thank you! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:49, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

No worries. It's always a pleasure. I've been curious about the brain and creativity for a long time now and I've investigated several different angles over the years. Right now, I'm more curious about sleep + exercise = creativity because I find the most benefit from that combination. How to replicate it is the tough part. I have found the best results using DHA Omega-3 and choline, but getting the right amount is tough. Viriditas (talk) 00:23, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I read the beard quote to a friend, and they found it very charming.

By "getting the right amount" do you mean 'enough' or 'not too much, not too little'? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:01, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I mean using it as a supplement. In most of the most common forms, it's too much for me personally. I get very vivid dreams for days on end, and while it's definitely a creative boost, and sometimes restful to boot, the sheer wild imagery becomes too much for me and I have to stop talking it. Not sure why this is. It doesn't just give me vivid, lucid dreams, it puts me into entire alien environments where I'm not even on Earth anymore. There's only so much you can take of that kind of thing. There's also other things linked to it, such as a lingering afterglow, almost like a hangover. I didn't sign up for this! One of the odd after effects is that food tastes better, colors seem brighter, music sounds better, and smells are stronger. Then again, there's probably a lot of synergistic effects occurring here. I've always had a heightened sensitivity to life, probably from birth, including a sensitivity to light and noise. Viriditas (talk) 00:31, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I've ordered the 5-gallon drum! Seriously, I want the same. I'll go heavy on the tobiko wil get goat kidney, lots about and nobody wants them. I imagine they're lamb's kidney, delicious fried and somewhat pissy. I also eat tons of flax -- tons. I'm ready to alter my state. I remember quitting pot decades ago and for weeks afterwards I got the experiences you describe. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:41, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I used to buy boxes of Barlean's, Plant Based Total Omega 3-6-9, but get this, I bought them in these mobile packets, like the kind you might find with Emergen-C, basically a tea bag size packet with the oil inside. The idea was that you would open the packet and slurp it down while on the go. It had some flavoring to it, maybe blueberry, I can't remember. They stopped selling those years ago for some reason, but they were the best product they ever sold. I used to call them "dream weavers". Not only did they work, they worked too well. They still sell the same product but it's only in a 16 oz (454 g) bottle. Viriditas (talk) 09:16, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Dream Weaver, great oldie. So, buy the bottle. I'm getting some online for sure. I'll let you know if I trip. We don't have drugs here, so it could be fun. Speaking of drugs, we were in the park, smelled pot, and found Cleome hassleriana, "spider flower". Same sort of leaves, but an unrelated plant. Odd. I couldn't find a good source that said it smelled skunky. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:04, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Another product you can purchase off the shelf is Ripple Kids Milk. It works. Viriditas (talk) 21:56, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Can't get that here, but I will find the next best thing. Thanks! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:03, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

		Hi Anna Season's Greetings and all the best for 2026
		Nice to see you back after so many years of absence. Wherever you are and whatever you believe in (or don't), reach out for peace on this little planet of ours! HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🥳 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:24, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Kudpung กุดผึ้ง, dear friend, so nice to hear from you. Lovely sentiments, thank you! And the same to you. Have a splendid 2026!! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:45, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

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Hello Captain!! You've become an amazing Wikipedian!!! Excellent!! Thank you for the wonderful holiday wishes. I hope you have a great 2026! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:12, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Can you please unprotect Valy Hedjasi so I can accept Draft:Valy Hedjasi? The article had previously been AfD'd for non-notability and then repeatedly A7'd, but the draft has 1 web citation + 1 TV citation, and the creator @Uditiyinfire says an Afghan TV channel covered them, so the subject now meets the minimum requirements for notability IMO (especially given the limited online media in Afgahnistan). See also discussion at User talk:Uditiyinfire. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 23:17, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi pythoncoder. I'm no longer an admin, so I can't do that. Please go to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and click the blue box requesting unprotection. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:50, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Anna Frodesiak,

Thank you for creating Ali and Nino (sculpture).

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There is currently a discussion at Talk:List of schools in Zimbabwe#Keep the blue links only. You can join the discussion if you like. BhikhariInformer (talk) 04:48, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

BhikhariInformer, thank you! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:17, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm a bit slow, but I didn't realize the swear jar image was from 2014! I love how you created a homemade lightbox for this purpose (which works perfectly as it adds texture that you don't get from a pro lightbox). But the best part, is it looks like it came straight out of one of your world famous illustrations. This is so very painterly of you! Viriditas (talk) 21:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, dear friend! :) There's a lot to unpack there (said the mover arriving at the extreme hoarder's new home). Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:48, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Where's the button for making you the official Wikipedia artist? Viriditas (talk) 00:16, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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To accompany the discussion above about interesting foods. One potentially delicious variation is to add hot chocolate powder to the coffee. ↠Pine (✉) 17:33, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Pine!! So nice to hear from you! How are things? Chocolate, eh? Yes, I've heard that's a nice addition. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:38, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Anna, I'm okay, thanks for asking. I wish that I could say the same for the state of the world. ↠Pine (✉) 02:51, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello dear Pine! Don't panic, have towel. This is just the demise of the last of the Western empires and the colossal tectonic shift in global economic and geopolitical power from one entire side of the planet to the other. Routine stuff. Happens in worlds everywhere. Will it end in nukes is what we spectators all wonder? Barring accidents and misunderstandings, the question is then: who are the men behind the scenes, essentially thieves or essentially ideologues? In the end, the former deals, the latter goes all the way... :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:29, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

"Now we but see through a glass darkly..." (earlier English translation in the King James Bible, based on text from approximately year 55 CE/AD). However, I try not to let worries regarding tectonic shifts in history become the ruler of my personal life on a daily basis given that constant worrying is bad for health; as the Clough poem says, "Must still believe, for still we hope That in a world of larger scope, What here is faithfully begun Will be completed, not undone." ↠Pine (✉) 03:06, 13 March 2026 (UTC)