Posted by Billy on Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 21:17:03 :
A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote
mountainous pasture
when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards
him. The
driver, a young man in a Bryony suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
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?" The cowboy 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 navigation system 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
e-mail 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
the cowboy. 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 cowboy 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 the cowboy. "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."
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