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Two Hundred and Twenty Five Years Ago Today

The first United States census was authorized. The census is important to the United States not just because it gives us a much more accurate count of how many residents and citizens there are (as opposed to interim projections) but because the resulting counts are used to set the number of members from each state in the House of Representatives and, by extension, in the Electoral College.

It also influences how more than $400 Billion per year in federal and state funding is allocated with respect to neighbourhood improvement projects, public health programs, education programs, and transportation. So, while it might be annoying to have to answer those questions every ten years and reaffirm your Pastafarianism or Jediism, it is necessary.

Shubenacadie Sam, For Your Own Good, Stay in Hiding!

Two weeks ago, we told Shubenacadie Sam to be afraid because LOLCat was waiting to have a few choice words with him.

Let’s just say LOLCats across the province, who are still trying to find his hidey-hole, are still not very pleased with Shubenacadie Sam. Case in point:

While most of Atlantic Canada has not reached record setting levels of snowfall yet (unlike Halifax’s good friend Boston), LOLCats across the Atlantic Provinces are having to dig their way out of the house like poor Rudiger (and they are not happy about it).

Shubenacadie Sam, Be Afraid.

Subenacadie Sam,

Source: CBC

LOLCat is waiting to have a few choice words with you

Source: Attack of the Cute

Another Prediction LOLCat Can Get Behind

We all know what LOLCat thinks of futurists and their ideas. (Just see this post.)

But every now and again, someone comes along with an insightful, and true, prediction that LOLCat can get behind.

Earlier this year, LOLCat discovered an amazingly accurate prediction by Peter Smith (of Spend Matters UK) who, as summarized in this post, predicted that all predictions will be wrong.

However, LOLCat recently stumbled upon this great post by Pierre Mitchell who, in LOLCat’s view (and the doctor‘s view), predicted that “2015 Will be the Year of the Chief Buzzword Officer” [Spend Matters].

And it will. If you thought filling up your Buzzword Bingo card was easy last year, just wait and see what this year, the year of Procurement Damnation, brings. (In fact, this will likely be the year that Buzzword-Free Bingo hits the scene. Once your office mates get tired of filling their card before the boss takes his second breath, they will be searching for a game that lasts the entire hot-air filled meeting.)

What do you think LOLCat?

I Win!

75 Million . . . for a Wallet!

In our recent damnation post on e-Currency, we noted that if you think trying to manage real currency exchange is bad, just wait until you have to start using non-country based e-Currency, like Bitcoin — which is going to happen sooner than you think if CoinBase, which just raised 75 Million to create a better Bitcoin Wallet, has its way.