From: sackman@plains.nodak.edu (Gleason Sackman)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
Subject: November Hunt Results - 4 of 4
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:25:19 GMT
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 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.

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 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

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 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.

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      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

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 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
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 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

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 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!)

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 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?

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 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

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 "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...

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 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.

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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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