A cowboy named Bud was 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 sunglassesand 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 aGPS 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 processingfacility
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
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 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 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 tried to show me how much smarter than me you are;
and you don't know a thing about cows...
this is a herd of sheep. . 
Now give me back my dog. 
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