Remember Elmo Bagman, the swindler, who tried to scam my owner out of some money? I said that he had asked us to find a needle in a haystack and I wasn’t kidding.
Bagman had made a deal to buy a sample sliver of experimental high-tech metal that someone had stolen from an electronics company. It looked just like a needle but it was very valuable and he knew that he could resell it for a huge profit.
There was just one problem. The man he bought it from was also a crook. He arranged to meet Bagman at a remote farm in the area. But instead of just handing it over, he dropped it into a silo filled with hay. Then he took the money and ran.
Thus, Bagman was faced with the classic problem...finding a needle in a haystack. Since it would have taken him weeks to search through the hay, he thought for a moment and got a better idea. He called on me because at that time my programmer was so interested in testing my abilities that he was not very careful about the type of people we worked for. He had no idea who Bagman was.
In any case, it took me less than a minute to come up with the solution to his problem which has puzzled mankind for centuries.
Do you know what it was?
Nano Solution_____________________________________________
“Got it!” you say snappily. “You drove a herd of goats out to the farm to eat the hay!’
“Nice try,” Nano says, tongue in virtual cheek. “But they would have eaten the needle too.”
“Oh right.”
“No, it was all much simpler than that. I simply told Bagman to light a match to the hay. When it all burned down to a pile of ash, the needle would be easy to spot!”
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