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.

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)

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

Rest easy Hot Lips.

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)

@Angie posting the school's out thread got me thinking about this. Remember when ISU had these huge poster sales on campus at the MU? I loved going to those.

So, what's a poster you've up on your wall at any time of your life? Musician, athlete, actor, destination?

I'll kick this off with one I had as a kid:

Jeff Woody and Grant Mahoney welcome Ari Temkin from Big 12 Radio on TuneIn to discuss the latest on the Big 12 from conference meetings, storylines heading into next season, and all the CFP madness. Presented by Kelderman Manufacturing.

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?

Horror movie fans. Oof.

Not sure who’s seen the trailer for this new horror movie. I don’t take horror movies lightly. I love a few. Hate a lot more. But I love going to them.

This is one of the most ****** up visceral grotesque disturbing yet at the same time incredibly sad and visually stunning horror movies I can recall.

Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins (Shape of Water) is absolutely brilliant in this role and while she won’t be nominated for awards because it’s a horror movie she should be. She’s better than Toni Collette in Hereditary in my opinion.

Won’t be for everyone. I don’t do body horror to well and this is next level. No joke I spent probably 15 honest minutes not able to look at the screen.

But for general horror fans this is a must. It’s just a really truly well done movie that happens to be horror amped up. This will stick with me awhile.

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.

"On That Note” is presented weekly by @MeanDean, @cyclones500 and myself.

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Chris Williams and Brent Blum react to the breaking news of TV times that see a Cy-Hawk Big Noon Kickoff. Discussing more noise from the SEC and more. Presented by Mechdyne.

Big Noon Kickoff show will be in Ames with the 11am Kickoff vs. Iowa

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Did the daily mini today and was pleasently surprised by one of the clues today!

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4 Down: Sch. not far from Des Moines

OMG guys…
Nice work!

When would be the best time to retire his jersey? Discuss.

Member of the McCoys, contributor to the Edgar Winter Group, and solo act.

Monday Musings on Tuesday

- Tyrese Haliburton has the Pacers up 2-1 in the conference final
- Dominykas Pleta gets another year
- SEC meets and Sankey throws a shot
- Alex Palou, Sports on Prime & more here

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/05/...-1-pleta-given-4-years-palou-pounces-on-indy/

I've been to Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, and Scotland, but not to Iceland. What's needed for the latter in terms of adapters and voltage converters?

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Chris Williams and Brent Blum react to Greg Sankey’s comments about the future of college football before diving into the latest in Big 12 transfer portal news and a few mailbag questions. Presented by Mechdyne.