A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture 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, 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 AT&T 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 hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads
>all of this data via an 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 1586 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 consultant." 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; and you
>don't know anything about my business."
>
>"Now give me back my DOG." |
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