My girlfriend & I were quite happy to welcome 43 adults & 31 children to
  my farm on Earth Day.  We got a mix of DEC, Raytheon, Cabletron, Draper 
  people for users plus ViewLogic, Exemplar, Mentor, Chronologics (and even a
  Cadence guy!) for EDA types.  Although I made it a point to phone the local
  office the day before to make them feel welcome, no Synopsys people came.

  One postive effect was a lamb's life was saved.  It's bad news when a mama
  sheep gives birth to 3 lambs because she can't produce enough milk to feed
  all three.  As a result, mama will single out the smallest (the runt) and
  starve it to death so the remaining two can survive.  During the Earth Day
  tours I found a newborn triplet w/ runt.  I was sad because I had to leave
  in two days & therefore couldn't bottle feed her (the runt) for the first
  few weeks until she could eat grass.  While the most of the lambs were
  jumping & playful, she moved very slowly from dehydration & starvation.
  Experience told me my poor little Auschwitz lamb was about 18 hours from
  death.  Unexpectedly, Scott Winick, a sales manager for Exemplar, and his
  wife who had a newborn child of their own, volunteered to bottle feed the
  runt for the needed 4 - 6 weeks!  ("Hey, we already have to get up every
  three hours to feed one baby; what extra trouble is it to feed two?")

  When my girlfriend found out she did the happy crying thing because it was
  so much the "right thing to do."  And at PLD Con '95 I enjoyed watching the
  surprize on Ewald Detjens' face (the CEO of Exemplar) when I told him that
  my goats "Aart" and "Harvey" now have a runt lamb friend named "Ewald"!

                                                - John Cooley
                                                  the ESNUG guy