The Shepherd

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    The Shepherd

    A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly abrand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.



    The driver, a youngman in a Boss suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans outthe window and asks the shepherd, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep youhave in your flock, will you give me one?"



    The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a high flying professional, thenlooks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"



    The young man parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connectsit to his latest Motorola cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet,where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix onhis location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans thearea in an ultra-high-resolution photo.



    The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports itto an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, hereceives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed andthe data stored.



    He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excelspreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this datavia an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives aresponse.



    Finally, he prints out a full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech,miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the shepherd and says,"You have exactly 1586 sheep."



    "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep," says theshepherd.



    He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks onamused as the young man stuffs it into the boot of his car.



    Then the shepherd says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactlywhat your business is, will you give me back my sheep?"



    The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"



    "You're a consultant." says the shepherd. "Wow! That's correct," says theyoung man, "but how did you guess that?"



    "No guessing required." answered the shepherd. "You showed up here eventhough 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 f***ing dog."


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    DJDK is offline Senior Member
    lmao, nice one. any one know for any sattilites i can get access to lol

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    CLEVER_LOGIN_NAME is offline Elite Member
    Hey I'm an Engineering Consultant!!!
    Sit, stay, baaaad sheep.

    Unfortunately DJDK yes, yes i do...
    http://www.spaceimaging.com/

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