Scott Boehmer

Author: Scott Boehmer

  • National Taco Day

    National Taco Day has been widely celebrated on the 4th of October since a Del Taco marketing campaign popularized it in 2009. Then in 2024, Taco Bell petitioned to abandon the traditional date and shift the holiday to better align with the popular Taco Tuesday movement. Now, taco lovers are torn between the orthodox date of October 4th and the reform calendar that places the holiday on the first Tuesday of October. Which side of this schism do you support?

    Personally, I just plan to celebrate with tacos on both dates this week.

  • Quebec

    Quebec

    I spent a week in Quebec in the middle of September for work. I had two days in Montreal and then the rest of the week in Mont Tremblant. Here are some pictures from the trip.

  • Sunshine Girl & The Balance

    Lenka released a new album, Good Days, at the end of May, and I’ve been enjoying listening to it since then. Here are links to the first and last song on it which I feel pair nicely.

    Sunshine Girl – Lenka (YouTube)

    The Balance – Lenka (YouTube)

  • Shenandoah

    Shenandoah

    Earlier this month, my family did a weekend camping trip to Shenandoah National Park. The three of us met up with my brother and sister and their families. We had three adjacent camp sites and got to spend our time there hiking and hanging out.

  • No, AI is not Conscious

    I think we’d all prefer it if chatbots never emitted sentences such as “You should kill yourself.” However, for all the times that “honesty” is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns.

    Ted Chiang

    No, Artificial Intelligence is not Conscious (The Atlantic)

  • Hocking Hills

    Hocking Hills

    Last weekend, we took a trip to Hocking Hills in Ohio to meet up with my mother-in-law. We got in some hikes to see waterfalls and rocks in the state park.

  • The High Cost of Car Ownership

    This video from Theo Nollert focuses on the high costs of owning a car and touches on how American communities have been designed to require cars.

    The High Cost of Car Ownership (YouTube – Theo Nollert)

  • Photos from Portugal

    Photos from Portugal

    Last week I was in Portugal for a team-building trip for work. While there I got to do some sight-seeing, both as part of group activities and on my own. Most of our time was spent within walking distance of our hotel near Rossio, but we also took trips to Arrábida Natural Park, Setúbal, and Oceanário de Lisboa.

  • A Trip to Florida

    A Trip to Florida

    We spent last week in Florida. On the way down, we stopped at the Kennedy Space Center where there was a lot of stuff for the Artemis II launch that was only a few days away at that point. Then we visited the Miami Zoo, Biscayne and Everglades National Parks, and some family on the Gulf coast.

  • The Real North Carolina Voter Fraud

    A nice quick video looking at voter fraud in North Carolina.

    The Real North Carolina Voter Fraud (YouTube – Theo Nollert)