The Portion Test

It all started with this:
 
raspberrie05: although i find that girls tend to get more deals than guys do
J blazin  NY: deals?
raspberrie05: yup
raspberrie05: discounts
J blazin  NY: on what
raspberrie05: when they buy food, bigger portions
raspberrie05: don't u realize that?
J blazin  NY: really?
J blazin  NY: i dont notice that.....
raspberrie05: yes
J blazin  NY: i feel jipped
raspberrie05: ice cream
J blazin  NY: really
raspberrie05: always get more
raspberrie05: food
raspberrie05: always get more
 
raspberrie05: why don't u do a taste test?
J blazin  NY: huh
J blazin  NY: i mean a portion test
raspberrie05: yup
raspberrie05: equal amount of guys order same thing as girls
raspberrie05: then u can size it
raspberrie05: and see who gets more
raspberrie05: or we could just go chinatown ice cream factory
raspberrie05: i'll get green tea ice cream
 
Its a value to be a woman, I guess
 
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Japan makes world's smallest diamond ring

Cheapskate husbands-to-be the world over have reason to celebrate today, after a Japanese company unveiled what is believed to be the world's smallest diamond ring.   The ring has a 0.02 millimetre diameter and bears a five-billionth of a carat diamond. It can only be seen through a microscope.  Hitachi High-Technologies says it used technology normally used to produce semiconductors to make the ring.
 
It was created by Yasushi Kuroda, an employee of the company's subsidiary Hitachi Science Systems, to illustrate that the company's equipment can be used to make micro-machines.
Kuroda took just two hours to make the ring using equipment with gallium ion beams which is normally used to inspect and manufacture semiconductor chips.
 
The ring was made from tungsten wire from light bulbs and the diamond, 0.01 millimetres in diameter, was from polishing powder, the officials said.   A digital microscope photo of the ring won the gold award at this year's Asia-Pacific Conference on Electron Microscopy.