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He typed, “Who is the best professor on campus?”

The website responded with the phrase, “Boz is the best.”

I admitted that was pretty neat and asked if he just preloaded it with a few answers.

“No. I’m serious. It knows everything,” he replied.

I told him, if the website was so smart, ask it what I was wearing.

John typed in the question, and, to my amazement, up came the reply, “Black shirt with blue jeans.”

Completely baffled, I stammered, “How …how did you do that?”

“It’s smart, I told you,” he said with a laugh. “Well, actually, I suppose there is a trick to it. I just wanted to practice it before I used it in class next time.” For the next fifteen minutes, John and I took turns perfecting the technique of using the website.

A main reason the trick works is that despite being in his eighties, John can still type quickly. I asked him how he had learned to type so well.

“After I got done coaching our football team my senior year of high school,” he replied, “I went on to basketball, and we beat the junior college basketball team pretty badly. After our basketball season ended, the junior college coach asked me to play with his team. I liked basketball, so I agreed. But he told me I had to be registered at the college in order to play. So I signed up for Typing 1, a night class.