A whole new world...of technology...

My fifty-something boss sat down next to me in the computer lab today and started working on an assignment for his class. Soon he asked me: "How much does a monthly bus pass cost?" Of course, since I don't ride this bus (and up to this past May was still using a college ID to ride for free), I had no idea, so he started asking students--who of course had no idea either since they get theirs for free from the school. Since I was sitting at a computer, I do what I usually do when I don't know the answer to something--I googled it.

10 seconds later:
"$80. A Zone 1 bus pass is $80 per month." I showed him on the website.
Pause while he typed that into his worksheet and I continued my own work.

"Okay, I'll bite...how'd you find that so fast?"
"I just googled 'how much is a bus pass in this city'. It was the first thing to come up."
"Hmmm..."

Two minutes later.
"Well, I tried it. I was looking for what percentage of income should be spent on housing and I typed it into google and it was the first thing that came up!"
"Yep. It's like magic!"

I think I just introduced him to a whole new world...

Now if only I could teach him how to make double sided copies, then we would be set...

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Here's another one of those "signs of the times" incidents from class. They were doing the assignment where I give them a list of stuff and they have to classify it as either "matter" or "not matter".
Slow Talker: This one says "a cell"...do you mean a cell from your body or a cell phone?

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Overheard (one student to another):
"Your handwriting is eligible!"

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In today's discussion of matter, we talked a bit about what air actually is...

me: Yes, there is oxygen in the air, but air is actually only about 23% oxygen. What do you think the other 77% is?
two students (in unison): Pollution!!

Well, we may rank right up there in the most polluted cities...but we're not THAT bad!