Post by Aaron Jensen on Feb 12, 2011 22:44:13 GMT -5
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of
a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan
sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy,
'If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your
herd, Will you give me a calf?'
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, 'Sure, Why not?'
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook
computer,connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs
to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite
to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another
NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution
photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and
exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the
image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a
MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with
email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a
response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-Tech
Miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy
and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.'
'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says
Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the Bud says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly
what your business is, will you give me back my calf?'
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay,
why not?'
'You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government', says Bud.
'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess
that?'
'No guessing required.' answered the cowboy. 'You showed up here
even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
already knew,to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how
much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about
cows...this is a
herd of sheep. . .
Now give me back my dog.
pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of
a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan
sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy,
'If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your
herd, Will you give me a calf?'
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, 'Sure, Why not?'
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook
computer,connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs
to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite
to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another
NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution
photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and
exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the
image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a
MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with
email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a
response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-Tech
Miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy
and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.'
'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says
Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the Bud says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly
what your business is, will you give me back my calf?'
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay,
why not?'
'You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government', says Bud.
'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess
that?'
'No guessing required.' answered the cowboy. 'You showed up here
even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
already knew,to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how
much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about
cows...this is a
herd of sheep. . .
Now give me back my dog.
