Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Looming Nadir

Senor Weaselo - July 5, 2023July 5, 2023

I was gonna do something like rate the Sousa marches, but there are a lot of Sousa marches. So I'm gonna not do that, considering it would have ended in some sort of joke about the piccolo solo in the last time of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" after the

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Subtitle Goes Here

Senor Weaselo - June 28, 2023June 28, 2023

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(Wow, nicely done, me.) Well, I didn't finish any gigs after midnight this past week, so I'll take it. That took me almost a week to fully recover, even while I had other gigs that week. Or actually that's part of why. So, let's scramble here! -There's one race left in this

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Endless Setlist

Senor Weaselo - June 21, 2023June 21, 2023

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One of the stories in the writers' backroom this past week has been my Sunday night. I am still recovering from it, because, well, it's nothing short of the longest gig any of us have ever had. Including the contractor. Who had played something in the morning. In short, call time

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Well, Now What?

Senor Weaselo - June 14, 2023June 14, 2023

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhLjTQMHk4 It's that time of year again, where all that's left in terms is baseball. The Euro footy's over (and who cares about MLS, even with Messi), and we have the relief that Florida Man will not win championships this year. Or championship, thanks to the Nuggets and Golden Knights winning their

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Pray for Maestro

Senor Weaselo - June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

If you don't live on the East Coast, Hank Scorpio hasn't started slowly and methodically vaporizing you yet. Imagine playing sports in this? Oh, wait, we have that. Image via The Sporting News. But for real, if you haven't heard, Ontario and Quebec are currently suffering from wildfires, and it's so widespread

BattleBots Beat: Seven Fights for WC VII.

Senor Weaselo - June 1, 2023June 1, 2023

This is it. Eight bots, seven fights, three rounds of competition, and at the end, someone walks away with the Giant Nut for the first time in their career. Who will it be? Well, we have seven teams that everyone would be happy to see, and also Riptide, who at

Wumbo Wednesday: This is Scenery?

Senor Weaselo - May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071cXxCNj5A So Monday/Tuesday was Manhattanhenge. For those of you new or unaware to New York customs, Manhattanhenge is the four days a year (two in late spring, two in early-ish summer), where the sunset aligns with the grid of Manhattan. It looks something… a-like a-this. One of the things I've always wanted

BattleBots Beat: The New Meta?

Senor Weaselo - May 25, 2023May 24, 2023

Welcome back to the Beat! Let me first day that don't worry, we're not talking about the good Doktor's former employer, but the general metagame of combat robotics. How do we get there? Well, we'll show you over the course of the fights, duh. It's the last super-packed week, the last

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “Summer” Break

Senor Weaselo - May 24, 2023May 24, 2023

Well, nothing fancy or schmancy on the block tonight, but hey, semester's over, I get myself a little break before the summer classes start, if I'll be there for those. So for once I'm writing this up from the confines of Apartment Weaselo! It's nice in that I didn't travel

BattleBots Beat: Now With Less Salt, We Hope

Senor Weaselo - May 18, 2023May 18, 2023

Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out we covered the right side of the round of 32, so it's only fair that next we get the left side. Then after that, two weeks to go—the round of 16, then the quarters, semis, and championship. And then we wait for