OR BRIAN BILBRAY
The Wyoming Cowboy
A Wyoming cowboy was herding his cows 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 processinfacility 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 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...
Now give me back my dog
The Wyoming Cowboy
A Wyoming cowboy was herding his cows 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 processinfacility 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 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...
Now give me back my dog
R.I.P 07/01/09 - 04/23/10 :(
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