I know, some of you may be saying “Oh man this blog used to be merely suboptimal, rather than just completely neglected, why god why? Content! Please!”
So here you are, in order to appease your plaintive cries and get you good and buttered up for the Holiday Shopping Scrum, I bring you some suboptimal (we must live up to our reputation) iphone cam pics of my very good friend @experimentium‘s extremely Geeky RoboTattoos.

These geeky tattoos, besides being on the moodily lit, well-muscled form of a Man In Uniform, are really beautifully done. Word has it that the artist is moving to Paris from the San Francisco Bay Area. As one astute observer pointed out, that’s a really fine reason to go to Paris. . .

	Mmm. . .um, gears. Hug your local EMS! Seriously! I feel here would be a good place to give a shout out to my bud @edrabbit, who runs the site Geeky Tattoos, which is a fine and dandy way to remove some time from your workday.

Getcher Tickets HERE!

Hang on to your grinders, your hydraulic lifting arms, your CO2 fire extinguishers and sand buckets, and brace yourselves for the most fun you can have with esoteric hardware and fatty snacks! That’s right, bitches, it’s COMBOTS CUP TIME!

Image courtesy Quinn Norton for Robot Magazine

Join the best fighting robots in the country doing what they do best – thrashing, crashing, smashing and obliterating each other inside our specially built bulletproof robot arena. Yeah, this is what they used to have on TV, but it’s way better live – the sights, the sounds, the smells, the NOISE. Mm, noise.

Image courtesy Quinn Norton for Robot Magazine

See everything from 1 pound antweights to 340 pound super behemoths duke it out in the ring, the loser carried out in pieces! $5000 prize purse for the best of the heavyweight division robot gladiators!

See Sewer Snake go up against Original Sin in a match that is sure to be Biblical! See Last Rites offer twisted metal condolences to its unfortunate weaker opponents! Cheer as the 120,000 lb bulletproof robot fighting arena shakes with the most twisted forces physics can manufacture!

We’re proud to be in our new location this year at the delightfully centrally located San Mateo County Expo Center! Lots of parking, easy access to Caltrain and tons of space to spread out and cheer on your favorite robot team!

Fun for the whole family, a massive circus of science and engineering complete with popocorn and cotton candy! Collect trading cards of your favorite robots, browse our robot midway and see all your favorites up close and personal. Hobnob with teams, find out how you can get involved and enjoy a grand day out at the 2009 Combots Cup!

BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR THE BEST EVENT YOU WILL EVER GO TO, EVER, (except for Robogames) RIGHT HERE!