Saturday, July 23, 2005
Hi-tech land-scape-goat
Network Appliance, a computer data storage in Sunnyvale, CA, has decided to employ 200 goats to keep the lawn trim on its 5 1/4 acre campus. Supposedly everybody is happy. It's cheap for the company -- the goats cut lawn maintenance costs by $5,000 or 70 percent (cheaper than outsourcing to Pakistan). It's good for the environment -- no more air pollution from large lawn-mowing equipment. And it's fun for the goats -- they get to eat for a job. No word on other benefits though.
The goats aren't picky eaters. They devour grass, poison oak and almost everything else. And they have a great work ethic, says Allison Carey, owner of the "holistic land management" firm that rents out goat herds for landscaping purposes. "All they do is eat," she said. "It's what they're born to do."
She probably forgot one thing. In the computer business, if there is input, there is usually output.
The work is never finished
- posted by Woofwoof @ 5:29 AM
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Umm, unless the goats are "fixed" they'll need a coyote or two just to keep the goats down to less than 400. I think that's the other thing they're born to do . . .
-John
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