Hey, welcome. You're obviously referring to someone else, but I'll just say if you're reading through everything on the board, I put a pdf together that's floating around somewhere that was meant to be an introductory explanation for people such as yourself (and if you're paranoid about pdfs, I dumped all of the text in one of the other threads too). It's actually very out of date (several months) and some of the information is actually incorrect (some of it was based on someone else's incorrect code), but if nobody else does it I plan to redo it when I have the time. If by the time you're caught up you have any suggestions as to how we could explain it better for new people, please feel free to let us all know.
Eh? Something's happening in 6 or 7 hours?