So meaty!
Enjoy the pics. They're all clickable.
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Liv and Spike in the wee hours of the contest. Note the stylish cherry-wood-looking bookshelves! Aren't they pretty? |
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Orange Joelius and the Mighty Dorito of Knowledge. Or not. It's Joel, our resident love machine. Love him. I demand it. |
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Trivia Newbie Josh takes a peek from behind his Vaio. He's enjoying the comfortable Trivia atmosphere that we create. And he's grinning because he's got a naked man on his desktop. |
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Joel looks up from Demented and Sad, But Social to observe something that tickles his fancy. What that is, nobody remembers. |
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Keri has an idea! No, wait... That's just the lamp... |
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Angie stops to contemplate the existence of the hamster. Silly rodent. |
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Why, it's a plethora of the backs of people's heads! And in a marvelously "exciting" action shot, to boot! |
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Joel get answer. Make twin happy. Grunt. |
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It's all the fun of a chain of backrubs without the fun of a happy ending. Or, was there? *wink, wink* That's April and Cristina givin' it to Keri, while Joahua works along. |
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And for the second time in the history of the NMZ, Matt is pictured with a toilet. Please note that greater teams have fallen to plumbing problems. Didn't phase us a bit. |
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BUNNY GRUNT! |
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Not quite sure what Angie is laughing at. Perhaps the photographer is nude? |
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Beware! It's... NINJA NATALIE AND HER SPOON OF DEATH! Don't mess with the Master, else you'll get SPOONINATED! |
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Angie pauses during a lull in the action. Note the Creature from the Black Lagoon atop Matt's monitor. It was there in place of Chandra, absent from the NMZ for the first time. (And it's still in the NMZ lost 'n' found. Chandra! E-mail Matt with your snail mail and he'll send it back to you!) |
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Keri smiles. Natalie exhales. All is good. |
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By the end of the contest, Trivia Newbie Jade was workin' her mojo like an old trivia pro. Take note of Angie and Joel on the floor. During the last half of the contest, people were all sleeping in the livingroom just in case they had to be awoken and put to work in a hurry. |
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Parting is such sweet sorrow. Are these my books? |
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If you're not turned on by this, I'd have your libido checked. Twice. |
It was tremendous! There were twelve of us! It's... it's... it's like we belong on a Perkin's menu or something!
Yes, this was the seventh year for the Neo-Maxi Zoomdweebies. And it was the smallest by far. With only twelve of us actually at NMZ HQ doing the Trivia dirty work, it's a wonder that we pulled off another successful year. Even with missing the big question (and smacking ourselves when we realized how obvious it was), not having Chandra and Sarah on-site, and a couple crucial hours with a barebones staff, we still had a whiz-bang year in the top twenty. Plus, we had our Movie Guru return to us, albiet long-distance, as Sam Rassier listened in from her guard post in Bagdhad, Iraq.
2004 was also the first year of one of the hallmarks of the Zoomdweebie experience: The lounge style. Yes, part of being on the NMZ is just plopping down anywhere that's comfortable with your laptop and joining in. It's a comfortable, collaborative atmosphere that serves us well still.
The team that the caption next to the toilet photo references is Those Meddling Kids, a storied team in contest history that supposedly broke up over plumbing issues. Legend has it that the team had grown to a size that the hosts' house, and toilet, could not adequately handle. The members parted ways after the messy final year, forming other, smaller teams.
