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- From: sackman@plains.nodak.edu (Gleason Sackman)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
- Subject: November Hunt Results - 4 of 4
- Message-ID: <EDTECH%92111717083624@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:25:19 GMT
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- ---------- Text of forwarded message ----------
- ==========================================================================
- 9. (4) My cousin is graduating next spring from Columbia
- University. What day is commencement?
-
- Winner's Answer
-
- Search Columbia University cwis.
- [Good place to find cwis address is HYTELNET
- software at access.usask.ca]
- Telnet columbianet.columbia.edu.
- No login is required.
- Select Classes, Finals, Holds, Bulletins
- Select 9. Academic Calendar: Spring 1993.
- Scroll through the spring months using N (next page)
- until you reach May. The Baccalaureate ceremony
- will be held Sunday, May 16, 1993.
- Commencement will be Wednesday, May 19, 1993.
-
- ========================================================================
- 10. (4) Where can I find a review of the movie Sneakers?
-
- Winner's Answer
-
- Use WAIS. Telnet quake.think.com and login as WAIS.
- Select Movie-Reviews at bloat.media.mit.edu (which
- is currently source number 199).
- Keyword: Sneakers
- This retrieves 6 items: 5 are reviews and the 6th
- mentions Sneakers in another movie review.
- Select each entry in turn to retrieve the review.
- The reviews are by:
- Frank Maloney, 22 September 1992, from
- USENET newsgroup rec.arts.movies.reviews
- Donn B. Parker, 16 Sept. 1992, from
- USENET newsgroup comp.risks
- Roger Snappy Rubio, 28 September 1992, from
- USENET newsgroup rec.arts.movies.reviews
- 2 Fat Guys, 15. Sept. 1992, from
- USENET newsgroup rec.arts.movies.reviews
- Sarah M. Elkins, 15 Sept. 1992, from
- USENET newsgroup rec.arts.movies.reviews
-
- Other Answers
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-
- anonymous ftp to : lcs.mit.edu
- this is the rec.arts.movies.reviews database.
- go to directory: /common/movie-reviews
- here you can get the INDEX files.
- sneakers can be found in: 15xx.dir , files: 1516,1517,1518,1533,1544
-
- ----------
-
- An archive of movie reviews is available via Gopher at
- gopher.micro.umn.edu.
- Select option 4, Fun & Games
- Select option 2, Movies
- Select option 8, 1992
- Select option 9, Sep
-
- The four reviews of "Sneakers" are items 19, 20, 21, and 22.
- These were posted to rec.arts.movies.reviews sometime in the month of
- September but are archived here since most news sites don't keep news
- very long.
-
- ----------
-
- Review by Ed Cavazos in issue 1 (Sept. 1992)
- of Word, newsletter of the Austin, Texas
- chapter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
-
- anonymous ftp ftp.eff.org
- cd /pub/EFF/local-chapters/Austin_TX
- get Word.September92
-
- =====================================================================
- Extra Credit:
- (1) How much are the quesadillas at Jose's Mexican Restaurant
- near Porter Square in Cambridge Massachusetts?
-
- Winner's Answer
-
- Quesadilla price: $2.50-$2.65. While the telephone is
- probably quicker for me since it would be a local call, I
- did find the answer using the MIT campus network since it
- seemed nearby.
- Telnet techinfo.mit.edu
- At the main menu select 12. Potluck.
- At the next menu select 7. Local Restaurants (LNF)
- At the restaurant menu, select 6. Jose's Mexican
- At this point Jose's Mexican menu appears and the
- price of the quesadilla is shown. However, I must
- point out that at the bottom of the page is a caveat that
- some of the information is out of date. An update is
- pending. That note is dated 10-10-90!
-
- Other Answers
- -------------
-
- Using libs "Internet Access Software, by Mark Resmer,
- Sonoma State University, February 1992" client, you can
- acces:
-
-
- LIBS - Internet Access Software v1.3.U (beta)
- Mark Resmer, Sonoma State University, February 1992
-
- Based on data provided by
- Art St. George, University of New Mexico
- and other sources
-
- On-line services available through the Internet
-
- Choose the number 3, 'Campus-wide Information Systems' then
-
- Campus-wide Information Systems are accessible in the following places:
-
- select the number 9, 'Massachussetts':
-
- > 12 Potluck
-
- Enter the number of your choice: 12
-
- 7 Local Restaurants (LNF)
-
- Enter the number of your choice: 7
-
- 6 Jose's Mexican
-
- Select the 6 'Jose's Mexican'. And..
-
- the price you are looking for is: Quesadilla: $2.50 - $2.65
-
- ----------
-
- I spent several hours looking for the answer to this question. I read all the
- relevant Usenet groups and their FAQs (rec.food, rec.food.restaurants,
- rec.food.veg, soc.culture.mexican, alt.restaurants...). I also searched for
- Gophers in Massachusetts. I could only find one - an experimental server at
- the University of Massachusetts, but I found nothing helpful there. I
- used Archie to look for files matching keywords such as "mexican,"
- "restaurants," "cambridge," "massachusetts," "jose" etc. Also searched the
- archives of several Bitnet lists.
-
- And at 1:11 A.M. EST this morning I found it!!!!!!!
-
- ===> telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu
- login gopher
- select Other Gopher and Information Servers
- select Terminal Based Information
- select MIT TechInfo
- select 12 (Potluck)
- select 10 [Local Restaurants (LNF) ]
- select 6 (Jose's Mexican)
-
- Price of quesadillas is $2.50-$2.65.
-
-
- (BTW, someone posted to rec.food.restaurants asking for the answer!)
-
- =====================================================================
- Mystery Question:
- As the moderator of the internet hunts, can you help me with
- something?
- I'm looking for the tides at the Golden Gate (California) for
- next April. I'm finding the information impossible to find at
- local libraries - even university libraries!!!
- Is such information available on the Internet anywhere?
-
- ----------
-
- There is some tide information available from the U.S. Geographic
- Service Earth Science Data Directory, Data Referral Service. Couldn't
- figure out how to get actual data out of it but this is what I got.
-
- ENTRY_TITLE: TIDE AND TIDAL CURRENT PREDICTIONS
- GROUP: TECHNICAL_CONTACT
- LAST_NAME: KELLEY
- FIRST_NAME: DAVE
- PHONE: (907) 271-5040
- GROUP: ADDRESS
- 222 WEST 7TH, #38
- ANCHORAGE, AK 99513-7574
- END_GROUP
- END_GROUP
- ORIGINATING_CENTER: ESDD
- LOCATION: North America> ALASKA
- LOCATION: North America> US
- PARAMETER: Ocean Dynamics> tides> TIDE
- KEYWORD: ALASKA DIRECTORY
- KEYWORD: ATLANTIC
- KEYWORD: COAST
- KEYWORD: COASTLINE
- KEYWORD: INDIAN
- KEYWORD: OCEAN
- KEYWORD: PACIFIC
- STORAGE_MEDIUM: CATALOGS/INDEXES
- GROUP: COVERAGE
- MINIMUM_LATITUDE= 0N
- MAXIMUM_LATITUDE= 179N
- MINIMUM_LONGITUDE= 105W
- MAXIMUM_LONGITUDE= 60W
- END_GROUP
- GROUP: SUMMARY
- Daily tide and tidal current predictions for the present year are
- contained in this data set. The stations in the tide table are
- for West Coast of North America and South America. Additional
- tide tables for East Coast, Central and West Africa, and the
- Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. Stations are in tidal
- current tables for the Pacific coast of North America. Included
- are reference stations and stations for 650 locations in tide
- tables. Tidal current tables list 915 locations for calculating
- tidal currents. Reference copies are available for past years.
- END_GROUP
-
- ----------
-
- "archie -s tide" returns a number of interesting refs (note that
- archie data is also directly accessible through Gopher, but I'm
- not going to synthesize this one, having found it without Gopher).
-
- Particularly interesting is the tides162.zip program, found
- at osi.iunet.it in /disk0/tmp/navy
-
- This program runs under MS-DOS, and includes data for tidal predictions at
- San Francisco, among many other locations.
-
- Also see USC-Math Gopher Service:
- Multitopic/Science and Technology/Geography/USGS ESDD, search
- for <tide tides california> for net references to offline collections
-
- The Oceanic Database at U-Del also holds promise, but... I've found the
- solution already, I think. The Oceanic service is accessible from
- USC-Math as well. I have leads on a number of other sources, as well...
-
- ----------
-
- Mystery problem- Sheech, just walk to Astronomy and ask
- who does the celestial mechanics course. Go to that person and
- ask your question. Of course that doesn't use the internet, so I
- suppose you could look your Astron. Dept. up in the Internet
- white pages, and then ask for the referal from the secretary, and
- then mail him/her with the question, if you wanted to involve the
- internet that is.
-
- ----------
-
- I tried searching "archie" for tides - pertinent responses:
- 19920326165100Z 182163 osi.iunet.it /disk0/tmp/navy/tides162.zip
- 19920326165100Z 182163 relay.iunet.it /disk0/tmp/navy/tides162.zip
- 19920323000000Z 7518 nic.funet.fi /pub/astro/general/tides.txt
- 19920211000000Z 7518 ames.arc.nasa.gov /pub/SPACE/FAQ/Tides
-
- (Rick: I tried out tides162.zip, a program written in QuickBasic in
- 1989 by an Edward P. Wallner. The program seems to work well for some
- stations on the East Coast of the U.S., and should work as well with
- West Coast stations. The catch is that you need to find historic
- tidal data for these stations. Mr. Wallner lists sites that can
- provide you with this information. Perhaps coupled with the first
- answer on data from the USGS, one could solve this problem. However,
- there does not appear to be a simple table on file, and in fact, such
- a table is only useful for short term predictions of perhaps less than
- 200 days.)
-
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