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Jimmy volunteered to make some Ramen noodles for me. He started out with some of the Oriental flavored Ramen noodles that I had bought, and added an egg and some seasonings to it. The result was rather tasty. It had a bit more to interest me than the stock Chicken flavored Ramen that I had consumed previously. Seeing egg fragments in the noodles was a bit unusual, but they weren't bad.

I just outdid myself. I decided to make it so that my emails contain Face headers when I send them. Information on how to do this is available here: http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/. Don't ask me how to do them in windoze; I have no idea. I also don't know which email clients support viewing them other than Gnus. But they are a cool concept.

The real challenge in making Face headers is getting your png format pictures down to 726 bytes in size, maximum. I had to do some creative things in the Gimp. The Gimp is a free Photoshop replacement. Even windoze users can download and use Gimp. For example, I made use of the colorize function to make my picture look grayish so that it would look better. So: 6 Faces made in 5 hours. Is that a good ratio? For all of them, I started with a background or picture of some sort, and then enhanced them so that each would look better. The thing is, since you can only have 726 bytes maximum for each picture, I have to make the picture use only 8/10 colors. Because of this, some of the pictures do not look as good as they originally do, and I have to edit pixels by hand. It's well worth the effort, IMHO.