Yesterday our department held its Christmas party. Much schmoozing, a little shop talk, and the ingestion of tasty tidbits was the order of the day. One interesting twist to the festivities was that atop eight of the tables in the ballroom were small buckets of Lego bricks.

The people seated at each table were tasked with the creation of a centerpiece, tableau, or other such spontaneous objet d’art, and given an hour to do so. At the end of the hour, everybody in the room was to mill around and cast their votes for the winning table, whose prize was the confiscation of everybody else’s Legos.

I am pleased to say that our table’s Christmas diorama was the crowd favorite, by "an overwhelming margin", according to the tuxedo-clad MC. If I may, I would like to take a quick moment to cast aside the civil constraints of the Christmas spirit and say that table 6 owned your asses. That is all.

As soon as I can figure out how to get the photos off of my phone without paying Motorola $30 for their phone tools, I’ll post them here so that you, too, may bask in the glory of table 6’s unfettered genius.

UPDATE: Here’s the photo from the phone.