Post by Laura on May 28, 2009 13:30:53 GMT -5
Herd of Cows...
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture
in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a
cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and
YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked 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 an 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, 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 w atches the young man select one of the
animals and looks on with amusement 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 used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you
are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or
about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. Now give me back my
dog.
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture
in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a
cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and
YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked 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 an 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, 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 w atches the young man select one of the
animals and looks on with amusement 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 used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you
are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or
about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. Now give me back my
dog.