Follow the Red Sun by Kaartijer
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A colorful sunrise in Galveston (where else!), shot taken about a week ago...
Today's joke:
A guy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked 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 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 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, 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 with amusement 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 used millions of dollars wort h of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living -- or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep........
Now give me back my dog!
Comments (49)
Gorgeous image!!
splendid image and very cool tale!!
Wow...really beautiful!!!!
FANTASTIC picture!!!!!!!!
I remember those sunsets over the water well. I haven't seen anything like it here on the west coast so I think Texas has it copyrighted. :-)
Wonderful shot. And the toke is really cute :)
Outstanding capture. Aloha
Joke's great, the image even better. What a wonderful image you've captured! Wish I were on that ship.
ROFLMAO, your tax dollars at work, perfect. Red Sky in the morning, Sailors take warning Peace
This really is a beautiful shot Eddie, it's one of those that really inspires
Beautiful, wow that is some kind of rockin camera you have!
Oh this is beautiful~~ I visited Galveston about 1o years ago, and I hope to get back sometime soon.. Nice work Eddie~
The atmosphere is wonderful Eddie! That's a great photo, I think the boat is Carnival Comp :)
Fantastic picture!!
Now I don't care who you are (except Congress), that's funny (and not so funny, so accurate). Carnival makes some unique smoke stacks. Great shot.
romantic capture...nice sunset
super cool image, great shot!
Such a wonderful capture.
Very beautiful sunset! Great joke
what an awesome sunrise.glad you were there and up so early.
Very Beautiful sunrise eddie and excellent capture i love it...Great to see u...and cute JOKE >>:):)...
Wow! Splendid sunset!
Great shot!
Wonderful and fantastic backlighting.....!!!!
excellent picture !
OH MY:)Hello Eddie:)) so nice to see yu and so sorry if i am late:))THis is wonderful:))Where else?you say! May be...but very similar here in Foz do Arelho i will share something with you,one of this days, when i find...i have everything here,in a mess!LOL!!! Great photo once again...and perhaps the colours are really UNIQUE!Thank you so much for the smile:)
belle image!
woowwww.....outstanding work ...done*******
You just go to love Mother nature...when you see an image like this ! I discovered those black specks, when I zoomed in - what are they ? birds ? or your lens ?? BB
Wonderful image!! Well Done