I’ve listened (or read) articles by Connor regarding the Big XII and Iowa Stste specifically getting hosed by the selection committee…

Love to see Tech add further salt to the wound by advancing to Finals against TexA$$

https://www.slashfilm.com/the-last-of-us-tv-series/

Bringing on the Chernobyl creator for this as well.

This could be really good, if its anywhere near as good as the game was.

There are 2 parts of my roof that don't have gutters on them for some stupid reason. One is right over the door to my patio, so if I need to go out after a rain I always get drops on my head. The other is in the front and I can kind of understand why they didn't put a gutter/downspout there to preserve the curb appeal.

Am half tempted to try to DIY it, but wondering if there are any good gutter companies out there that aren't going to rip me off for what should only be like 24' total of gutters.

Beat out the majority of the MAC for him. I trust Heacock and Broomfield on their talent evaluation

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Apologies to OTN contributors for the delay this week. The holiday, combined with my life & work flow, we decided to push it back a couple of days.

This week, we are looking for songs with the following in title or lyrics: catch, caught, grab, seize, clench, grip, hook, capture.

Inspiration for the topic: Last Friday, I was in St. Louis for Battlehawks game and in pregame I caught a pass from our very own former ISU QB Seneca Wallace.

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So now that it's starting to heat up, I turned on the AC last night and it wouldn't come on. The AC unit is only 2 1/2 years old and I had the HVAC company do an annual checkup on my AC unit just a few weeks ago, so I wasn't very happy. Of course, this all happens on a Friday night so all I get is the company's answering machine and I know there's no way I can get one of their techs to come fix it until Monday at the very earliest. Meanwhile, the temps are supposed to be mid-80s today and near 90 on Sunday and Monday.

After spending a few hours poking around trying to diagnose the problem, I discovered the issue. When the HVAC tech came to our house a few weeks ago to do the AC checkup, he inserted the breaker thing upside down into the AC power box on the side of my house, so the unit had no power. I re-inserted it right side up into the power box and the AC popped on just fine. Now I'm wondering if I should call the HVAC company back and leave another message indicating that I fixed their error, or if I should just let them do a service call to see if they can identify their own screw up and see if they try to charge me for it.

I'm tempted to do the latter because I'm a little pissed about another issue. When this HVAC company did their annual checkup on my AC, they told me the run capacitor on my unit is starting to get weak (again, the unit is only 2 1/2 years old). They recommended that I have them install a new Soft Start Kit ($323.51) and High Performance Run Capacitor ($319.82) for a total of $643.33 plus tax. Now I know little about HVAC, but I'm pretty sure I can pick up a brand new capacitor for around $30 and install it myself after watching a YouTube video.

It just torks me off how these companies rip folks off. I'm still trying to decide if I should let them come to my house to see if they charge me for fixing their own screw up.

Ok I encourage healthy lifestyle and community driven events, but I can't even get to my shop by Johnston because everything is blocked off! I'm trying to make money people!

End rant.

As the cartoon bracket is finishing we want to get a jump start on next bracket which is Villains.

Below is a list committee people have put together as usual I will pitch for new blood to join the team. Also as a committee we have been looking at format of what should or shouldn't be in so list of nominee's isn't incredibly large.

@2speedy1 had some great insights that would of helped the cartoon bracket but sadly it got after cartoon bracket was announced.

We are looking to keep the superhero/comic book characters to a minimum, and possibly eliminate monsters and robot villains as well as horror to make things more manageable.

Agent Smith (The Matrix)
Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange)
Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction)
Amon Goeth (Schindler's List)
Angel Eyes (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
Annie Wilkes (Misery)
Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)
Auric Goldfinger (Goldfinger)
Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice)
Biff Tannen (Back to the Future)
Bill Kiddo (Kill Bill)
Bill the Butcher (Gangs of New York)
Bob Wolferton (Freeway)
Boba Fett (Star Wars)
Brad Wesley (Road House)
Brian Shute (Vision Quest)
Bud Kilmer (Varsity Blues)
Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs)
Caledon Hockley (Titanic)
Calvin Candie (Django Unchained)
Captain Hook (Hook)
Captain Howdy (Strangeland)
Captain Vidal (Pan’s Labyrinth)
Clarence J. Boddicker (Robocop)
Clubber Lang (Rocky III)
Coach Reilly (The Mighty Ducks)
Col. Nathan R. Jessup (A Few Good Men)
Commodus (Gladiator)
Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Count Rugen (The Princess Bride)
Cruella DeVil (101 Dalmations)
Curly Bill Brocius (Tombstone)
Darth Maul (Star Wars)
Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Detective Alonzo Harris (Training Day)
Doctor Doom (Fantastic Four)
Doyle Hargraves (Sling Blade)
Dr. Christian Szell (Marathon Man)
Dr. Evil (Austin Powers)
Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
Dr. No (Dr. No)
Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
Edward R. Rooney (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Eleanor Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate)
Elliott Marston (Quigley Down Under)
Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)
Eric Gordon (Billy Madison)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (You Only Live Twice)
Francisco Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun)
Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
Frank Costello (The Departed)
Frank McBain (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Gaear Grimsrud (Fargo)
Gollum (The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit)
Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
Green Goblin (Spider-Man)
Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)
Howard Payne (Speed)
Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)
Jabba the Hutt (Return of the Jedi)
Jack Torrance (The Shining)
Jareth (Labyrinth)
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (The Fifth Element)
John Kreese (The Karate Kid)
John Ryder (The Hitcher)
Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
Keyser Söze (The Usual Suspects)
Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Kylo Ren (Star Wars)
Lex Luthor (Superman)
Little Bill Daggett (Unforgiven)
Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Mama Fratelli (The Goonies)
Maax (Beastmaster)
Magneto (X-Men)
Max Cady (Cape Fear)
Max Lawrence (The Lost Boys)
Max Zorin (A View to a Kill)
Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon)
Mr. Joshua (Lethal Weapon)
Noah Cross (Chinatown)
Norman Bates (Psycho)
Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Paco Moreno (Bad Boys)
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
Rachel Phelps (Major League)
Regina George (Mean Girls)
Rev. Harry Powell (The Night of the Hunter)
Richard Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
Roy Batty (Blade Runner)
Salem Abu Aziz (True Lies)
Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
Saruman (The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit)
Sauron (The Lord of the Rings)
Sgt. Bob Barnes (Platoon)
Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Smokey And The Bandit)
Sheriff of Nottingham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
Shooter McGavin (Happy Gilmore)
Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Simon Gruber (Die Hard with a Vengeance)
Simon Phoenix (Demolition Man)
Skeletor (Masters of the Universe)
Steff McKee (Pretty in Pink)
Sy Parrish (One Hour Photo)
Thanos (The Avengers)
The Deacon (Waterworld)
The Joker (The Dark Knight)
Tony Montana (Scarface)
Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
Uncle Benny (Lethal Weapon 4)
Vic Vega/Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)
Victor Maitland (Beverly Hills Cop)
Vigo the Carpathian (Ghostbusters II)
Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)
Warden Hazen (The Longest Yard)
Wes Hightower (Urban Cowboy)
Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz)
Willie Soke (Bad Santa)
Wolf Stansson (D2: The Mighty Ducks)
Yves Perret (Tango and Cash)
Zuul (Ghostbusters)

Big 12 regular season over/under win totals via @CircaSports

Arizona State 8½
Kansas State 8½
Texas Tech 8½
Baylor 7½
BYU 7½
Iowa State 7½
Kansas 7½
Utah 7½
Houston 6½
TCU 6½
Cincinnati 6
Colorado 6
Arizona 5½
UCF 5½
Oklahoma State 5
West Virginia 5

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...mahaffey-dies-aged-71-northern-exposure-actorEmmy award-winning actor Valerie Mahaffey dies aged 71 | Los Angeles | The Guardian

Are you doing any weed today (4/20)?

When the lease runs out on the K, the city and organization need to make it happen.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article220173030.html

Would you be more likely to go to a restaurant that added a little over 20% to all of their item prices when compared to comparable restaurants and then did not give you an option to tip?

You could leave additional cash or could request to leave an additional tip on a credit card receipt, but the default would be that there is no option for leaving a tip and no expectation to do so.

So as a couple of examples:
A normally $9.99 menu item would be changed to $12.25
A normally $26 menu item would be changed to $32
A total of $120 in items ordered would change to around $146.50

Passed away at the age of 87.

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That leaves:
Jamie Farr (90)
Alan Alda (89)
Mike Farrell (86)
Gary Burghoff (82)

Other M*A*S*H cast members:
McLean Stevenson (1996; 68)
Larry Linville (2000; 60)
Harry Morgan (2011; 96)
Wayne Rogers (2015; 82)
William Christopher (2016; 84)
David Ogden Stiers (2018; 75)

Jake Brend and Derek Duke fill in for Williams & Blum to discuss Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers reaching the NBA Finals and the Big 12 meetings that took place last week. Drafting Iowa State’s best logos and more. Presented by Mechdyne.

Voting is open for the Championship of the Cyclone Fanatic Cartoon Tournament


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Deadline to vote: Now through Saturday at 10 PM

Just purchased my first "nice" vehicle and decided to dive into learning how to wash and detail it myself. It's been a more fun and interesting rabbit hole than I expected. Curious if anybody else has embarked on the same hobby? Would be great to have a thread to share experience and feedback on different processes, products, maintenance routines, etc.

I've done a couple 2-bucket washes with Meguiar's Wash and Wax + wheel and rim cleaner and dressing, but just decided to jump all in and plan on doing a full foam cannon wash, clay bar decontamination, and ceramic spray seal this upcoming weekend or whenever weather cooperates.

Feels a lot like Chris Benoit:

https://sports.yahoo.com/mma/articl...-being-replaced-with-imposters-205824657.html

Rest easy Hot Lips.

With 2023 (top 10) and likely 2024) classes wrapped up time to start looking at 2025.
ISU had an official visit from Kai Rodgers to witness the victory over KU Saturday.

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It’s the last day of school in a lot of places around Iowa. That includes Ames.

Do you have any celebrations that you did annually as a child to celebrate the last day of school? Any time-honored shenanigans? Any good stories?

Did you live in a location where you got to see your friends during the summer, or were you maybe out in the middle of the country and didn’t get to see anybody until the first day of school the next year?

Figure it's not too early to start a thread for this fall. There are a few odds and ends to post now, such as the McCaffrey extension, etc.

One (polling) question for you all: would people rather have separate 49ers game day threads for each week or do everything in one place like last season? I honestly don't have a preference. There are pros and cons to both ways. But I know some were frustrated with games not having their own thread - I just didn't want to switch gears in mid-season last year. Poll is open for three weeks (until the end of June, more or less). I'll bump it occasionally so more people have a chance to see and vote if news to post is slow otherwise.

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Twitter: @nbcs49ers