A cowboy named Bud appeared to be 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. Withing 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 and 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 Laser Jet 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 animals," 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 Bud says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my animal?" The young man thinks about it
for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?'
'You're a U.S. Senator", 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 smart you are; and you don't
know a thing about cows... this is a flock 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. Withing 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 and 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 Laser Jet 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 animals," 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 Bud says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my animal?" The young man thinks about it
for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?'
'You're a U.S. Senator", 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 smart you are; and you don't
know a thing about cows... this is a flock of sheep. Now give me back my dog.'
