I remember when my grade 4 teacher thought I was cheating in math tests because I didn't write down any work for arithmetic questions. It ended up with her writing down questions on the blackboard and me telling her the answers, and eventually she had to concede that I could do them in my head. What's strange is that now I'm pretty terrible at simple mental arithmetic, damn calculators rotting my brain.

Back when i was really new to linux i compiled mplayer on slackware (this was about a year ago) It was extremely easy, as i had read the docs and knew what options to enable and disable. The only problem i ever had with it was choosing the right outputs (was running on an old laptop and everything but one or two were very slow) But hey, i don't care as long as i can watch my anime one it.