Honey

The story of Honeybee, from Honeybee... One Person's Theory. Interested? Find all the right links about Steam Powered Giraffe here. Pinky Robot loves this stuff. She knew I would.

I like the word honey. Honey was our main term of endearment growing up, and since fond terms of endearment were rare in my family, I cherished being called Honey on rare occasion by people like my granddad. Because of that, I knew under the gruff there was a guy with a soft spot. I can't say definitively, but I think I'm the only grandkid that got to know him as well as I did during a long car trip across several states. I never told him that I've always wished I'd been named after him since I was about 12, easily adaptable to Claudette or Claudia. I got the idea from a Christmas special with Andy Williams and his then wife Claudine Longet.

They say you catch flies with honey. According to twitter analytics, 80% of my followers see my tweets on desktop and laptop computers. Statcounter and google analytics both say over half my blog readers come in on mobile. Since most of my initial traffic to Pinky blog jumps over from twitter almost immediately (first hits), that's pretty much locking down on mobile notifications, so apparently the majority of my first readers come from the tech savvier 20% of my twitter followers. I guess moving to a mobile friendly blog on a giant platform was my honey.

We had this album. A Taste of Honey was my favorite piece.


This is twitter honey. It's not much yet, compared to professionals, but if you're blogging regularly and don't know about twitter analytics, you need to check it out. I've never seen this happen before with a blog link tweet, especially during such a drastic drop in my overall twitter presence. Keep in mind that twitter impressions does NOT equal link clicks or blog views. Impressions are how many eyes could have seen your tweet when they opened their feeds. Still, that's a pretty sweet number for one of my blog links, especially in only 24 hours.

We used to bring home several gallon jars of spun honey from Kansas when we drove out for holidays once a year or so. It was the best honey because it came straight from beehives and had never been extracted with heat, a beautiful thick pale golden syrup that sugared up over a long time. Because I grew up on top quality honey and became obsessed with it, I can tell at a glace in stores how honey in jars has been processed. For several years I sampled a variety of special honeys from all over the United States. Tupelo is my favorite- "Tupelo Honey is the gold standard by which all other honey varieties are measured. For two weeks every spring, White (Ogeche) Tupelo Trees in the Southeastern swamps bloom with fine sunburst-shaped flowers that glisten with nectar." I've also had white honey flown in from Hawaii, one of the rarest honeys in the world. It's probably not a surprise that my favorite candy for a long time was a taffy called Bit-O-Honey. We didn't get candy very often.

I don't look at twitter analytics very often, mostly just to see how Lexx tweets are doing. This was my top tweet last month. I once held this sketch in my hands. I wish I had it back sometimes, but I'm pretty sure the fan who has it now is taking good care of it. This is Lexx honey. You can see more captures of Kai holding a baby cluster lizard here. (This artist is working on a surprise for the 20th #Lexxversary, to be announced later this year.) (Guys, I'm all *mind blown*, srsly.)

I'm not very good at the arts. There are artists and musicians out there sharing wonderful things, and I've often wished I could share the things I see and hear in my head. The only thing that comes out is words, and I've stumbled for years trying to make the words work right. I am learning how to get report cards that help me assess how I'm progressing. I had to size these down a little, but they click out to bigger if you feel the compulsion. Basically, I can tell from twitter analytics that my best twitter traffic comes from #MondayBlogs and Pinky Press Review. This first snip is over the last month, the second one is over the last week.

You can do this too, if you're linking to blogs from twitter. It's a nice way to gauge what sort of hashtag team gets you the best exposure. You can also experiment with the best time of day to tweet and stuff, what sort of descriptions and pictures work better.

Aspie-autie kids can be challenging for parents to understand. I went through a phase in first grade where I was nearly late to school while this song was at the top of the charts. I had to hear it on the radio every morning before they could peel me off of it and get me to leave the house, and I would cry and cry on the way to school. No one could comfort me, and no one ever knew why I was so sad. Given what we know now of Pinky Robot, one has to wonder if we somehow know before we're born some of the challenges we'll be expected to rise to. Some children exhibit behaviors and have memories that don't belong in their current lifetime experiences. hybrid- how robots go on


That song still destroys me every time I hear it. It lends a bit more depth to why Pinky Robot loves the Honeybee story.

Back to actual engagement. Pinky blog didn't start out with the intention of capturing this much attention. Robot Test Site It's a personal journey through a labyrinth of locked up emotions, solving numerous riddles and puzzles along the way, but the goal has always been clear-


I worked so long and so hard, believed with all my might when it was still so dark. You guys need to do that, too. Make your Plan, discipline yourself to a Goal, assess your Progress, and BELIEVE. I didn't start out expecting much more from statistics than 30-100 hits/views a month and enjoying looking at the maps of states and countries they come from. (I'm a map enthusiast.) Analytics aren't a magic potion for making things happen, but they can be very useful for looking back over time and spotlighting what worked when you do notice more readers are showing up.

Also, you can see lots of other cool things on twitter analytics. For instance, 18% of my followers make over $75,000 a year. That doesn't mean they read my tweets, but it's fun to see what top grocery item is being discussed (consumer behavior), or genre preference breakdowns (lifestyle), or your top follower regions (demographics- my top two are England and California, in that order). Since I'm diligently sifting out the bots and spammers, my own analytics probably have more applicable meaning than some others. Accounts like God and tweety-tweets and the hundreds of Santas probably skew analytics by simply inflicting their presence in your follower lists.

Anyway. Time to get back to my chores. God, I love fans. Have I mentioned I love fans? Some of you are pretty messed up, you know that, lol. In a cute way.

crack!blog

Random thoughts while I work today-

6:17 Just noticed my phone is set on airplane mode. ???

6:57 Still trying to remember an if-then conundrum I thought of around 6:05 in the bathroom and couldn't get a page started here fast enough to remember it a minute later. I have hopes. Keeping this page open just in case.

7:05 Checking one of my emails, very rare limited peppermint honey is back, grab it while they've still got some. Yes, I've ordered Hawaiian honey before. I'm a foodie. It's an awesome site, click the pic to check it out.

7:09 I could slap myself for being so quick on the trigger finger, going through my spam stack and had just deleted a line that said Tony left a message on the SnarkFF fantasy board just before that highlighted line there. How coincidental is that???

If you don't have a clue, it's ok, rogue robot being weird. If you don't know what that means either, that's fine, it just means you aren't one of the lurkers that has crawled all over everything I write all over the internet over the last year. It's cool. Yeah, that's a prompt to go dig around if you wanna know that badly. I'll wait. Hang on, lemme get my elevator music while I wait.

Those of you thinking I'm being a slacker instead of working on my live tweet review, syfydesigns.com crashes when more than so many people get on at once, so I wait for the traffic to clear out before I start on the next panel. Just hold your horses.

8:14 I'm really sad that idea I forgot isn't coming back to me.

8:24 I just remembered something I wanted to tell @bonenado this weekend but I still can't remember what I thought of just this morning. We were cleaning up after burrito went home and he was wondering where a ball was that went to a game that had several balls in descending order, and I meant to tell him later "Oh yeah, remember when she put it in that jug and I didn't know it and poured bacon grease all over it and we threw it away?", but he wasn't in the room when I thought of it and then I forgot till just now. I live like this. I might remember two months later that I laid a paper I needed to fill out on a certain counter, but by then it's too late because I scooped it up with a bunch of other stuff and moved it somewhere else two weeks earlier, and I can't remember what I did with that stuff. I've been told by doctors looking at brain scans that I have a healthy brain with normal aging and no one thinks I have Alzheimer's onset or anything, no signs of strokes, but my memory is shocking. I think it runs in the family. My mom once told me her mother once brushed her teeth with Preparation H, she was always grabbing things without looking at them. I come home with random cans of why in the world did I buy that because I'm not looking specifically at what my hand is reaching for because I'm already looking down the aisle while I shop.

Here, have another crack vid while I get to work.

8:43 I just remembered that what triggered the whole 8:24 thing was that I was about to cook some bacon. Going back to the stove now.

9:06 Just thought how everything is forever in the cloud and remembered the idea I forgot might have had something to do with reincarnation. That's as far as it got, but it's a good start.

9:16 If reincarnation by some law of physics of which we are not yet aware requires that our effervescence must remain in a closed system, is the system closed to our particular universe, our particular location in said universe (quadrant, region, local...), or a completely different closed set that has nothing to do with our physical spacetime but everything to do with our spacetime being a subset of another system or vice versa, is there a way to tell if it is truly circular or linear, and how would we know?

I ask this because- as I was catching up on Ancient Aliens last night where they were reviewing Edward Cayce's dream-prophecy-memory that there is a room beneath the Sphinx (or beneath one of the Sphinxes) that is like a library full of info, and by the way said the Sphinx was created around 10,400 B.C. which some archeologists are now finding evidence for that same date saying at least 10,000 B.C. based on weathering and star formation measurements the tunnels are based on- we are assuming that one proven truth implies other truth based on nothing more than an association that has no other connection than that one proven truth. Part of the speculation arising is that future actually affected past and they keep looking for the buried technology that will answer all these questions. Remote viewing is a very real thing, it's documented and tested and has been used by military and crime investigations. No one knows how it works, no one can pin any kind of truth on it except that it does get some results, but we are usually not in tune enough with it for it to be a reliable tool.

9:31 I am loathe to enter on loseit.com that I just ate a third of a pound of bacon while I was wrestling all that out on the keyboard. I still don't exactly remember the idea that popped into my head earlier, which was one very beautifully constructed sentence that conveyed all the heft of that thought. I was hoping all that writing would trigger it, but alas. I'll just get back to work.

10:10 I need another vid. Hang on.

10:31 It's still only 25 degrees out and 'real feel' is 13. I'm freezing.

11:22 My feet don't like working out on really cold days. Hit my foot wall at 20 minutes. >=l Wimps. Oh, well, BACK TO WORK. Sweet, just about to turn the mile ticker.

11:54 I'm giving up on remembering that sentence. It's like my disengaged brain is mimicking dream mode and something floats through but stays in the subconscious part when I try to grasp it and keep it. Afternoons are like partial shut down and coasting through the rest of the day, so I guess I'll go look around for some lunch and do some more chores. Got pork steaks out to smother in BBQ sauce tonight, salad, apple crisp, feed up my mighty hunter when he gets home from work because season opens tomorrow. Thanx for hanging around, have another awesome vid on you're way out.