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Buckwheat honey is a robust, dark honey made by honeybees who feed on buckwheat.
It has been described as having a distinctive aroma with notes of "leather" and "barnyard", but its flavor has also been found to vary by region: Buckwheat honey from the northeastern United States is often from cultivated buckwheat and is "very dark" and "pungent" with "a strong goaty flavor profile"; some tasters say that it tastes "distinctly like cat pee." Buckwheat honey from California, usually derived from wild buckwheat, tastes lighter and sweeter.
Did you know ...
- ... that a situational comedy or sitcom is a type of television program that puts characters in a recurring setting and tries to get the audience to laugh?
- ... that Zombietime is a website run by a photojournalist who visits political rallies around the San Francisco Bay area?
- ... that Moqui Cave is a sandstone erosion cave in southern Utah?
About Encyc
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Encyc was established in 2008. :) We would like to thank all of our users for their contributions and support. We couldn't have done it without you. (block of cheese). We have two mascots. The Encyc sloth is named Pancake. The Encyc dolphin is named Butterfly.
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Deep thoughts by Enki
Lists
We love lists. Swayze movies
- Dirty Dancing
- Road House
- Point Break
- Ghost
We really love Point Break. While those poor saps creep along the highway in their steel coffins, we are here writing encyclopedia articles. That's Encyc, keeping the human spirit alive in the 21st century.
Not that Road House is anything to dismiss lightly. Road House closely approximates the early days of Encyc, when we ran a roadside bar and had to stand up against small town thuggery.
Benevolent deity
Enki is known for being on the side of humans. When the other gods figured that humans were worthless and it was time to start over, to wipe the slate clean, Enki undermined their plan and helped people.
So while other projects look at humans with indifference, mistrust, or malice, we try to go the other route. Encyc is going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Usually.
Today's movie quote: "You're angry because you got lied to?... Hey, they lie to everyone. They lie to the fish."
Greetings
Hello from your friendly ancient deity / Encyclopedia-runner Enki. So what are we doing here? Jotting down bits of knowledge and organizing them in some way. Of course we are nowhere near as thorough as Wikipedia, which inspired this whole project from the beginning. But why? I know that I have attempted to answer that question many times in the past. On a superficial level, yes there are trust issues with any one information source that can be solved by creating alternatives.
But why do we need to know this stuff at all? Maybe like Asimov's Encyclopedists we are trying to preserve the sum of human knowledge for future generations. But that was revealed to be a misdirection, so it probably is not that. If future generations ever degenerate to the point they really need us, it is probably too late anyway. You can't make up the deficit with a wiki. Maybe we're skeptical of the nature of knowledge itself?
And what's the point of giving humans the tools to continue if they're going to keep burning through natural resources, exterminating thousands of species a year, a problem highlighted in the documentary Pandorum..... but wait the Sun will eventually run out of fuel and destroy the Earth anyway so ok what's left?
Will Encyc serve as a lifeboat of human knowledge when Wikipedia is overrun by AI bots with very little human input? Encyc, written by humans, and that's why it reads this way. Ugh. Human settlers will show up on pristine new worlds armed with knowledge from the early 21st century, including what we write here. Looking for fresh water, knowledge, etc. Enki (talk) 12:37, 18 August 2023 (EDT)