Our Kuttappan was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture inkarapuzhawhen suddenly a brand-new Aveo 7 Series advanced out of a dust cloudtowards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Cartiersunglasses, Tissot watch and YSLtie, leans out the window and asks Kuttappan, 'If I tell you exactly howmanycows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?' Kuttappan looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at hispeacefully grazing herdand calmly answers, 'Sure, Why not?' The yuppie parks his car, whips outhis Dell notebookcomputer, connects it to his Nokia N95 cell phone, and surfs to a NASApage on the Internet,where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his locationwhich he then feeds to anotherNASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop andexports it to an imageprocessing facility in Hamburg , Germany ... Within seconds, he receivesan email on his Palm Pilot thatthe image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses aMS-SQL database throughan 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-pagereport on his hi-Tech Miniaturized HPLaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, 'You haveexactly 1,586 cows and calves.' 'That's right ! Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' saysKuttappan. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amusedas the young man stuffs itinto the trunk of his car.. Then Kuttappan says to the young man,'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give meback my calf?'The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay, whynot?' 'You're an IT Consultant', says Kuttappan. -------- 'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?''No guessing required.' answered the Kuttappan.'You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paidfor an answer I alreadyknew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarterthan me you are;and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep. . . . .. . . . . .' [I like reading the last statement again and again] ''...Now give me back my dog"