Consultant's Day out!!

[Akshar Kaul]

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture

in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW 7 Series advanced out of a dust
cloud towards him.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Cartier 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 HP notebook computer, connects it to his Nokia N95 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 .... 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 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 an IT Consultant', 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''*

---> Akshar Kaul <---