TOMLESCOEQUIP
Just Plinkin Away the $$
A West Texas cowboy was herding his cattle 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 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 for the National Republican
Party." 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."
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 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 for the National Republican
Party." 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."
