Michael and Mark Cimoli are true nerds, introduced to Patrick by DeLynn Bettencourt from the #somewhere channel on EFNet - back in the days that people still used IRC on a daily basis to communicate with one another over the Internet. They've stayed in touch over the years. They were friends with one of DeLynn's friends, Dan Reshatoff, and Patrick knew DeLynn from High School electronics class. She was the valedictorian of her class, which was one or two years ahead of Patrick's. Mark Cimoli has bad headaches like Patrick. Michael Cimoli got married a couple of years ago, and works in Project Management in a hospital. He's even talked about moving to New Hampshire or Maine someday - who knows? They were also friends with Bobbly, who spoke with Patrick over HAM radio numerous times while Patrick was in high school.