Thursday, February 08, 2007

never befreind a software engineer


    An ambitious software engineer finally decided to
take a vacation. He booked himself on a Caribbean
cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life. At
least for a while!
   A hurricane came up unexpectedly. The ship went
down and was lost instantly. The man found himself
swept up on the shores of an island with no other
people, no supplies, nothing. Only bananas and
coconuts! Used to four-star hotels, this guy had no
idea what to do. So, for the next four months he ate
bananas, drank coconut juice, longed for his old life,
and fixed his gaze on the sea, hoping to spot a rescue
ship.
   One day, as he was lying on the beach, he spotted
movement out of the corner of his eye. It was a
rowboat, and in it was the most gorgeous woman he had
ever seen. She rowed up to him. In disbelief, he asked
her: 'Where did you come from, and how did you get
here?'
   'I rowed from the other side of the island,' she
said. 'I landed here when my cruise ship sank.'
   'Amazing,' the software engineer said, 'I didn't
know anyone else had survived. How many of you are
there? You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up
with you.'
   'It's only me,' she said, 'and the rowboat didn't
wash up, nothing did.'
   He was confused, 'Then how did you get the
rowboat?'
   'Oh, simple,' replied the woman. 'I made it out of
raw material that I found on the island. The oars were
whittled from gum-tree branches, I wove the bottom
from palm branches, and the sides and stern came from
a eucalyptus tree.'
   'But, but, that's impossible, 'stuttered the
man."You had no tools or hardware – how did you
manage?'
   'Oh, that was no problem,' the woman said. 'On the
south side of the island, there is a very unusual
strata of exposed alluvial rock. I found that if I
fired it to a certain temperature, it melted into
forgeable ductile iron.  I used that to make tools,
and used the tools to make the hardware. But enough of
that....Where do you live?'
   Sheepishly, the man confessed that he had been
sleeping on the beach the whole time.
   'Well, let's row over to my place then,' she said.
After a few minutes of rowing, she docked the boat at
a small wharf. As the man looked onto shore, he nearly
fell out of the boat. Before him was a stone walk
leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and
white. While the woman tied up the rowboat with an
expertly woven hemp rope, the man could only stare
ahead, dumbstruck.
   As they walked into the house, she said casually,
'It's not much, but I call it home. Sit down, please.
Would you like to have a drink?'
   'No, no, thank you,' he said, still dazed. 'I
couldn't drink another drop of coconut juice.'
   'It's not coconut juice,' the woman replied.'I
have made a still, How about a Pina Colada?'
   Trying to hide his continued amazement, the
software engineer accepted, and they sat down on her
couch to talk.
   After they had exchanged their stories, the woman
announced, 'I'm going to slip into something more
comfortable.Would you like to have a shower and a
shave? There is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in the
bathroom.'
   No longer questioning anything, the man went into
the bathroom. There in the cabinet was a razor made
from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a
hollow-ground edge were fastened to its tip, inside a
swivel mechanism. 'This woman is absolutely amazing,'
he mused. What next?'
   When he returned, the woman greeted him. She
beckoned for him to sit down next to her. 'Tell me,'
she began suggestively, slithering closer to him,
brushing her leg against his, 'We've both been out
here for a very long time. You've been lonely. There's
something I'm sure you really feel like doing right
now, something you've been longing to do for all of
these months.'
   She stared into his eyes.
   He couldn't believe what he was hearing - this was
like all of his dreams coming true in one day...
   You mean...,' he replied, 'I can check my e-mail
from here?'

   *....As narrated by the Girlfriend of Software Engineer..!!*