Let’s take a moment to reminisce

Today’s subject is The Oregon Trail series of computer games, which were supposed to educate us (…how?) but mostly just provided us with a way to slowly kill fictional characters. A friend and I ALWAYS named the father of the family Abuser Joe, and then gave the families hardly any food and set them on a grueling pace. The rest of the family dropped like flies. I guess I did learn some things from Oregon Trail: if it wasn’t for that game, I wouldn’t know much about fording rivers, or know how damaging cholera and dysentery are to already underweight children. The best part of the game, aside from slowly picking off family members one by one, was going hunting. Sadly enough, Oregon Trail is probably still the video game where I’m most likely to hit what I’m aiming for. Shooting games just aren’t for me.

Some people made a fake trailer for the game. If you’re in the late 20s/early 30s demographic and ever played this game, you should definitely watch.

Do NOT mess with the cheerleader

It’s amazing enough that a 16 year old girl was able to tackle and subdue a shoplifter, but the fact that she did it in a strapless dress is, to me, by far the craziest part of this story.

You shouldn’t be able to wear Louboutins until you can legally drink

I think it’s pretty hilarious and awesome that Selena Gomez (who?) wouldn’t take off her high heels when my favorite building-exiter ever, Justin Bieber, asked her to, but my rah rah girlpower mood was kind of killed when I realized that she’s wearing ~$700 shoes in the accompanying picture. I’m not wishing an excess of teenage angst or even acne on the kid, but seriously? Let the grown-ups handle the designer footwear, kiddo.

I knew I should have gone to Comic-Con

I feel that my friends on the West Coast have an unfair advantage when it comes to awesome conventions. They get the real Comic-Con (not the knock-off NYC version)  and WonderCon, which a friend who has attended tells me is awesome. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my coast’s crap luck when it comes to conventions, but I do feel minor pangs of sadness when I hear about conventions that I would have attended if it had been geographically feasible. This past weekend, I read several items about this year’s Comic-Con and felt a little sad. Until I saw this article, and then I felt a lot sadder.

Pacey-Con??? I know that this is all for a Funny or Die skit, but the premise still pretty hilarious. I’m envious of California people, again.

Maid ≠ Dude

I’m really amused by this story, largely because of the ultra-serious headline.

Sometimes it pays to have bad taste

This unattractive King James pendant, which a LeBron James fan bought at a yard sale for $5.00, is actually worth $10,000. Do you feel sick now? I know I do.

I hear that yard sales are fun, I’m going to start attending them. My plan is to stick closely to the costume jewelry section.

Update: Was the pendant stolen?

If I were a famous singer, I’d do this all the time

Good on Funny or Die for coming up with this video, which was pretty entertaining. Jewel, disguised as frumpy, mild-mannered Karen, absolutely kills at karaoke doing songs by…Jewel. Love it!

Good food for a good cause

I hope you’re hungry, North Jersey. Today, Wednesday July 14, 2010, Blue Moon Mexican Cafe of Englewood is hosting a fundraiser for the Englewood Public Library. In order for the library to benefit from your excellent taste in restaurants, you must present the following flyer. It’s good for the entire day, and for eat-in, delivery, or carryout orders. Help the library!

Here’s a link to the flyer by itself, without any text from this post.

Update: Future Husband Isaiah Mustafa, AKA the Old Spice Guy, says a few words about libraries:

Okay, but how do I get him to respond to me?

I’ve pretty much abandoned Twitter, so as not to use up my lifetime allotment of words before I exit my 20s, but I’m almost tempted to go back. Why? Because Isaiah Mustafa, aka the Old Spice Guy, aka Nicole’s Future Husband, sometimes responds to people. Now, looking at the usernames, you’ll see that these people are all celebrities (of both the Real and Internet varieties). It almost makes me want to write my brilliant novel years ahead of schedule, just to bring me to the notice of the Old Spice people, so that I’d get my own personal message.

Almost.

Pattern recognition

That video has always been my favorite moment from The Price is Right (Drew Carey’s lack of enthusiasm notwithstanding), and it’s nice to know the story (or stories) behind it. I think it’s kind of cool that people not named Terry or Ted will probably never know exactly what happened that day.