January 5, 2010 | Distractions on a Geek Road

While working the long, long hours at Propworx earlier this year, we did allow ourselves some time to geek out. It compensated for the times when we mere Propworx minions wanted to cast all that Battlestar crap in our warehouse to a large bond fire. Crap that, thankfully, a bunch of fans have purchased over the past year.

And when I call it crap, I use the word “crap” in lieu of the word “pure garbage.” The other crap is good crap. However, the axiom of “one man’s garbage being another man’s treasure” applies here. If you like your crap, then I don’t begrudge you your tastes. You did buy it after all and I hope it means something to you!

Now when we geeked out, we still did some pretty creative things. We had a photo shoot of us in uniforms, with the photos taken by our SoCal local photographer, Lee, who is awesome. If I can find those photos, I’ll post a few; we shot them very late at night, so we had the “33″ effect going on, which fitted nicely into the gritty feel of the series.

Regardless, what prompted this entry was a photo I was sent by my friend and former Propworx co-worker, Erin. Steve, Thom, Erin and I had devised this little thing before my little dance with temporary insanity. It’s a graphical chart depicting the whole “all this has happened before” junk that Ron Moore stole from Peter Pan.

The "cycle of time" illustrated on a white board.

I’m quite proud of it. Even if there should be another red arrow between “colony” and New Earth… Or maybe we added that later?

Yeah, we added that later. Just assume we did.

Addendum: See? We even expanded upon it! I knew I wasn’t imagining this!

The expanded special edition of the whiteboard layout. Oh, and Roslin, our whiteboard was bigger than your puny one. How do you like those New Caprica apples?

See the following one-sentence paragraph? Not an addendum. Just a carry over during the revision process:

So, ahem, enjoy!