#gus — Public Fediverse posts
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Figure Eights
The internet has decided that modern humans are developing zoochosis, the madness of caged animals. The claim is older than TikTok, and the truth underneath it is more uncomfortable than either the believers or the scoffers want it to be. For most of the 1990s, the most famous resident of the Central Park Zoo was a 700-pound polar bear named Gus who spent up to twelve hours a day swimming the same figure eight through the same small pool. Back and forth. The same loop, traced into the water until it wore a groove in the day. Reporters called him neurotic, depressed, flaky, and bipolar, and New Yorkers half-adopted him as a mascot for their own condition. In 1994 the zoo paid an animal behaviorist twenty-five thousand dollars to find out what was wrong, and the verdict passed into legend. Gus, the behaviorist said, was bored and mildly crazy in the way that a lot of people in New York are. The zoo redesigned his habitat, hid his food inside blocks of ice, gave him toys, and made him the first zoo animal in recorded history to be put on Prozac. The swimming eased. It never fully stopped. Until the day he died in 2013, there were afternoons when Gus would throw himself back into the water and trace the loop again, and again, and again. […] -
“O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure!… Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.”*…
Shen, which was set to auction at Christie’s for as much as $25 million, on display at the Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore in 2022Readers may have seen news of the sale of “Gus,” a T. Rex skeleton that fetched a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby’s in New York last Tuesday. It’s part of a trend.
Devon Pendleton reports that dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires, with alarming implications for science… and, unsurprisingly, the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. Rex. She uses a different recent sale, one that went pear-shaped, as an example…
It was supposed to be an unprecedented sale for the world’s wealthiest collectors. Shen, a Tyrannosaurus rex, was set to be the first of its kind ever sold at auction in Asia. The reconstructed creature, whose name means “godlike” in Chinese, was tens of millions of years old and longer than a city bus, frozen midstep with its massive skull cocked, jaws agape, as if ready to snatch up an onlooker. Christie’s was auctioning off Shen in November 2022, alongside works by Picasso, and it was expected to sell for $15 million to $25 million.
Dinosaur skeletons had recently become a hot new asset class, coveted by the ultrarich, not unlike sports franchises or Fabergé eggs. They offered a mix of glamour and primal appeal to a certain type of high-net-worth buyer—someone who might find the conventional art market fussy or convoluted but couldn’t deny the allure of a T. rex. “It could gobble you up in one bite. It’s just an amazing creature,” says billionaire Dan O’Dowd, who bought his T. rex, Samson, for a bargain $600,000 in 2009. “It’s the best trophy kind of thing you could own.”
Two years before the Shen auction, Christie’s had sold a T. rex named Stan, said to be one of the most complete and best-preserved specimens ever found, for $31.8 million, trouncing the top-end presale estimate of $8 million. And two years after the Shen auction, financier Ken Griffin spent $44.6 million on a stegosaurus (“a vegetarian,” O’Dowd notes). Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and other celebrities have gotten in on the dino game too.
A dinosaur’s value, like a painting’s or sculpture’s, derives from a protean mix of provenance, desire and authenticity—the last one hard to define, let alone prove, and in the case of an auction, up to the buyer to verify. Christie’s marketing blitz for Shen included the claim that it was one of the most “scientifically studied T. rex skeletons to come to auction,” featuring it in a short promotional video in which the camera cinematically races in for tight shots of its menacing talons and gaping jaw as eerie electronic music pulses in the background. Christie’s made clear that the winning bidder would also get renaming rights, a tradition in which T. rexes in circulation are often given human names.
A month before Shen was supposed to arrive at Christie’s in Hong Kong, it was put on display at Singapore’s Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall, a stately neoclassical building with a grand clock tower. Families, tourists and prospective buyers in chauffeured Bentleys came to see the T. rex in the flesh, so to speak. But Shen never made it to the auction block…
[Pendleton unpacks the full–and fascinating– tale of Shen. She concludes…]
… In recent years the dinosaur market has gotten only more exuberant. Last year at Sotheby’s a juvenile Ceratosaurus—smaller than a T. rex, but just as carnivorous—sold for $30.5 million, five times its high estimate. Some collectors, including Abu Dhabi’s new natural history museum and German biotech investor Christian Angermayer, are funding teams of bone hunters to scour the fossil-rich western US. Todd Graves, the billionaire behind Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, emerged as a collector when he lent his triceratops skull to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.
And on July 14 in New York, Sotheby’s held what was hyped to be the hottest T. rex auction yet. Gus, as the creature is named, was described as 61% complete by bone count and 75% to 80% by bone mass with “an exceptionally preserved skull.” As the bids climbed, the auctioneer tempted potential buyers. “Try a bigger bite,” she said. “It’s a T. Rex after all.” Gus sold for $50.1 million, the highest ever paid for a dinosaur at auction.
Billionaires and their toys: “The Bone Rush,” gift article from @bloomberg.com.
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As we ponder possession, we might recall that it was on this date in 1983 that a new species of flesh‑eating dinosaur nicknamed “Claws,” later formally named Baryonyx walkeri was announced…
Plumber Bill Walker found a foot-long claw (source) #assets #billionaires #Claws #collecting #culture #dinosaur #DinosaurSkeletons #dinosaurs #Gus #history #Megalosaurus #paleontology #Science #Shen #TRex #TyrannosaurusRexA huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.
Plumber and amateur fossil hunter Bill Walker, 55, found a foot-long claw belonging to the flesh-eating beast at a clay pit in Surrey in January.
When he found the rock containing the talon he tapped it and the whole thing cracked.
Palaeontologists reconstructed it and dated the remains at 125 million years old, describing them as the find of the century…
… Nicknamed Claws, the dinosaur would have been slightly smaller than the Tyrannosaurus Rex – with teeth like steak knives – and was probably a sub-species of the Megalosaurus.
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Gus' the T. rex sells for $50.1 million, smashing dinosaur fossil records
https://1ban.news/gus-tyrannosaurus-rex-record-sale/
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GUS: Niemal 2 mln Polaków żyje w skrajnym ubóstwie
https://oko.press/na-zywo/na-zywo-relacja/gus-niemal-2-mln-polakow-zyje-w-skrajnym-ubostwie
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Państwo, które się nie bada. Cenne dane leżą odłogiem, bo naukowców nikt nie prosi o ich analizę
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A rescue cat who literally stole our hearts
“He’s just a cat” is a phrase one hears every now and then. Oh, but Gus was anything but “just a cat.”
We tearfully said goodbye to our best buddy over the weekend and are both completely devastated. Seventeen years old…but an eternity in our hearts. Personally, I don’t recall ever crying so much and so often…especially over the passing of a family pet.
I met Gus, a very handsome tuxedo cat, for the first time when he was four years old, as I started dating my future wife. Gus was one half of a dynamic kitty duo with Ellie who both lived with her and her daughters. While Ellie was open and welcoming, Gus was very shy and quite afraid of newcomers at the time. Maybe a half-hour after someone came in he would cautiously stroll into the room to see what all the fuss was about.
Over the years, Gus would grow and mature in so many wondrous ways it’s hard to imagine him once being so shy and afraid. He literally became our very best friend, especially when Ellie moved in with our youngest daughter after college. In fact, it almost seemed like he realized it was his time to shine. And boy, did he ever!
Gus went by many nicknames, including Gussie, Gus-Gus, Gustav the Magnificent, Gus-a-roo-roo, and most recently as Secret Agent 47. When you have a debonair tuxedo cat living with you, what else can he be but a spy. His assignment (and life-long mission) was to find intelligence among humanoids. Obviously, a nearly impossible task.
Secret Agent 47 became his alternative-persona when we moved to the Southwest about five years ago. And did he ever fit that star billing. He also attracted a huge following on Nextdoor here in the Albuquerque area, once garnering more than 10,000 views. Neighbors and online acquaintances always were excited to learn the lastest adventures of Gus and celebrated every victory over his nemesis like the Celery Stalker and the Grim Sweeper.
The outpouring of love and affection on Nextdoor for this “community cat” as one fan wrote after his passing, was so very heartfelt and kind. Even now, we fully expect him to be performing aerial security reconnaissance for Heaven to assure that the devil never makes any inroads there.
Gus loved the Southwest…especially the sunshine. After twelve years in often cloudy Michigan, the amount of sunshine here was wonderful for him. Like clockwork, throughout the year you knew roughly what time of day it was by where Gus was napping in the sun. Please note, I use the term “napping” for the uninitiated. Actually, he was silently spying on anyone and everyone in the house. What a better cover than to be a napping cat.
Gus even succeeded in converting this blog author from a dog lover into an ardent cat lover. Nearly every morning we would Meow at me and I would give him his “kitty message.” He would just purr away while stretching out and have a huge smile on his face. During the day, we would hug him atop the reclining chair, atop the couch, or wherever he happened to be at the time. In the evenings, he would wander back and forth between our chairs to get hugs, pet, and warm snuggles from both of us.
Gus was such a huge part of our lives…in the car on vacations, at our family lake cottage, in the kitty backpack while on hikes with us, sitting next to us at the dinner table, watching us make dinner from atop a barstool at the kitchen counter, striding into hotel rooms and selecting his own bed, and anywhere and everywhere you could possibly imagine. Everywhere we look, things seem eerily empty and forlorn without him here.
We will always love and miss you, little buddy. Our hearts will never be the same.
Peace!
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@zeitbot die #GUS, eine Auffangkonstruktion der 1991 zerfallenen #UdSSR, war schon seit längerem eine leere Hülle - die Fiktion gemeinsamer Sicherheit war spätestens zu Ende, als GUS-Mitglied #Russland das GUS-Mitglied #Ukraine mit Krieg überzog. Daher ist der Schritt #Moldau|s folgerichtig. Der Versuch Moskaus, sich via GUS weiterhin Hegemonie über sein altes Kolonialreich der Völker Osteuropas und Nordasiens zu sichern, ist gescheitert!
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Reasonable: Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten: Moldau verlässt die GUS
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2026-04/moldau-austritt-gus-russland-krieg-ukraine
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Jean Banchet Award Winners Announced – Chicago Magazine
The annual Banchet Awards for Culi…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #AlexCuper #Alinea #BanchetAwardsforCulinaryExcellence #Brasero #chicago #DelSurBakery&Cafe #ElCheSteakhouse #Feld #Frontera #Gene&Georgetti #GrantAchatz #Gus’Sip&Dip #Indienne #JakePotashnick #JavauneekaJacobs #JohnManion #Mahari #NineGarden #SandersBBQSupplyCo. #TheAlston
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2486031/jean-banchet-award-winners-announced-chicago-magazine/
