the need for a geek (life)

I'm having small technical difficulties and I am in need of someone
who speaks computer. My own vocabulary is somewhat limited...growing
in many ways, but limited none the less. I am caught up in the wish of
knowing more. But, it's kind of like French; I want to be fluent but I
don't want to put in the work.

One more thing (completely unrelated to the last). At the end of the
day, one of my more huggie students and I were waiting for his mother
to come and he told me his technique for writing things correctly.
[These are as close to his words as I can get them.]
"I use my brain. I don't think. I use my brain. I ask a question and a
little guy runs around and sends me the answer. He lives in my brain."
I then told him of the little girl that used to live in my brain. She
had a typewriter and an extensive filing system. When I had a
question, she would type the answer and send it out on my tongue. Unfortunatly, this technique no longer works for me. If it did, she would totally be hooking me up with my technical issue.