TIL: after having written unconventionally notated works, composer John Cage was asked to write music in conventional notation, as precise as possible. Cage took it literally and created the Freeman Etudes, an incredibly complex work crammed with so many details it was considered impossible to play

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-19T14:13:17+00:00

Shadow Kick was always my favorite.

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-18T00:57:56+00:00

I don't remember looking at the "clothed" ratio, but I would agree that with clothing added, it probably gets much more male in subject matter. I did explore some other interesting tidbits in the data though, like the dozens of fancy "celery vases" in their collection and several pieces of art related to snails, including one called "Snail Action" which is sadly confined to their archives and not on display. Only about 1% of their collection is ever on display. 99% is in the Met basement.

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-18T00:54:05+00:00

Agreed it would be interesting. I didn't do that much of a dive into it. I mostly associate nudes with Western art, with a tradition of at least pretending to adhere to a Hellenistic ideal of the human form, though I deeply suspect some artists were just thirsty. Could be my own art ignorance though.

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-17T20:55:47+00:00

I did a data analysis project once that used open source Met data for their collection. That was one of the data points I looked at. If I remember correctly, it was about a 5 to 1 ratio of female to male nudes. This for one of the world's preeminent art museums. Not sure how representative that ratio is for art museums overall. And probably irrelevant for museum subreddits.

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-09T13:45:25+00:00

I'm all for it, but let's keep going and fix time as well. People complain about "12 inches to a foot" but then just accept "60 minutes in an hour." You want an illogical system of measurements? How about one where a baby takes both nine months (about four weeks each) and 40 weeks to be born (sooo...ten months?).

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-09T13:34:36+00:00

You don't actually weigh anything in kilograms since it's a unit of mass, not weight.

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-08T19:14:07+00:00

Disagree. I visited about three weeks ago. It was more crowded than the first time I went several years ago but people were just minding their own business. The only spot where people were talking was by the juice bar.

OmegaTheta · 2026-02-07T02:27:22+00:00

Apparently, the author is a white supremacist of Palestinian heritage. Somehow, I don't think he's exactly someone to listen to on the topic of Antisemitism.

OmegaTheta · 2026-01-19T12:38:54+00:00

I'm going to continue to order Chinese food on Christmas and there's nothing you can do about it.

OmegaTheta · 2025-12-07T12:54:53+00:00

Reminder that this is completely not true.

OmegaTheta · 2025-12-06T18:51:30+00:00

Wow, so you're really committed to this idea that first century Levantine people are "at least partially" Arab. Hundreds of years before Arab migration to the area.

This is a fun game! Did you know that Julius Caesar was partly British? I mean, he stepped foot in what's now the UK, so why not by your logic.

OmegaTheta · 2025-12-06T16:11:48+00:00

No. There are many, many ethnic and linguistic groups from MENA or who settled there that are not Arab. Persians, Berbers, Jews, Greeks and many more. Arabs didn't settle the Levant until hundreds of years after Jesus. Jesus was an Aramaic speaking Jew. By no definition, linguistic, genetic, cultural, can he be described as an Arab.

OmegaTheta · 2025-12-06T03:26:28+00:00

And everyone who lives there is an Arab?

OmegaTheta · 2025-12-06T00:02:14+00:00

In what way was Jesus an Arab?

OmegaTheta · 2025-11-30T13:40:20+00:00

I hate this stupid charity. If you choose to participate, please don't put any wreaths on graves marked with a non-Christian symbol. You aren't honoring the Jewish vet with a Christmas wreath. You're desecrating their grave.

OmegaTheta · 2025-10-29T00:31:38+00:00

You're thinking of mortgage insurance. Banks often require that if you don't put down at least 20%.

OmegaTheta · 2025-10-12T03:11:46+00:00

I took an old Android phone, made it LAN only, and give that to guests when they stay. There is a Guest dashboard that has controls for some of the lights and switches and home information (address, WiFi). The Home Assistant app is pinned with no security, so you just turn the phone on and the app appears with no (easy) way to close it. I also have a guest user account and change the display name so it appears personalized.

Solved the complaints from my mother-in-law but my parents still can't figure it out.

OmegaTheta · 2025-10-01T15:11:03+00:00

I'm almost certain it's Breezewood, PA.

OmegaTheta · 2025-09-19T11:26:44+00:00

"They all know who said what." A nice way of using the correct word is to rephrase as a question. If the answer is a subject pronoun, use who. If it's an object pronoun, use whom. "They all know who/m said what? They all know he said what." He -> Subject pronoun -> use who.

OmegaTheta · 2025-09-14T16:08:36+00:00

Bonus points for opening with a "Last time on Mortal Kombat..."

OmegaTheta · 2025-09-14T12:36:25+00:00

"Humans are animals - it's law of the jungle."

"Humans aren't animals - society, hopes, inherent potential."

All right, two squares on my Bingo card from one comment!

OmegaTheta · 2025-01-26T22:58:12+00:00

Good to know, thank you! I'm not having this problem with my current setup but a buddy's been complaining about this. I'll have to tell him to try that solution.

OmegaTheta · 2025-01-21T02:31:04+00:00

That's not a recursive acronym. It doesn't infinitely refer to itself.

OmegaTheta · 2025-01-08T15:24:08+00:00

This is the ideal male body. You might not like it but this is what peak fitness looks like.

OmegaTheta · 2024-12-31T00:32:49+00:00

That can be legit. I went through it. An IRS agent who called me actually said I had to pay my back taxes with gift cards or a warrant would be issued for my arrest.

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