Lambs Born in April • Buttondown
Pastures which are subject to overflow should be avoided. All lambs born in April or May should be drenched about August or September following, to be certain of ridding them of worms that may later cause their death.
This is output from a tool I built called Veterinary Ipsum. It's something I've created a few times: a Lorem Ipsum generator specific to my company's business domain.
Lorem Ipsum is placeholder text used to communicate the design of a document. If you've ever seen website copy like "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet", that's Lorem Ipsum.
It's supposed to help us focus on the design, but I often find it distracts me from the design. As engineers, we generate our own Lorem Ipsum to fill in fields while building or debugging. I've noticed that the placeholders I choose reflect what I'm doing. When I'm heads-down, I'll use the programmer's standby "foo bar". When demoing, I'll use "Testing the form!" When trying to be mindful, I'll type "The dog is healthy", parroting our staff.
As you can see, this Ruby shell script loads two public-domain books about veterinary science into memory: The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise On The Diseases Of Farm Stock (1909) by Charles William Burkett and A Text-Book of Horseshoeing, for Horseshoers and Veterinarians (late 19th century) by A. Lungwitz. It then combines a few sentences into a paragraph.
