Since I wrote the root node, I was surprised to discover that nine of the first ten Perl Monks also have accounts at everything2.com! (only vroom is missing).

I was astonished and elated to learn that the mysterious paco joined everything2 on Apr 29 1999 at 13:07, was last seen "never", and, incredibly, actually created a profile:

Things that are good: Whales, really cold cheap american beer, Macintosh, The Toyota LandCrusier ...

That should silence the doubters who claim that paco is not a real person! He's real all right and, for the first time, we are privileged to learn about his likes. As far as I'm aware, this is the only known personal information about the elusive paco. Though he supposedly wrote one node LandCrusier (thing), I get "Permission denied: You don't have access to that node" when I try to read it. Is this an ingenious paco prank? And what of the (surely profound) meaning behind paco spelling it both times as the innovative yet obscure "Land Crusier" in preference to the pedestrian "Land Cruiser"? The paco mystery deepens!

In other highlights:

• We get further indication that Perl Monk No. 4 dbrown is indeed Darrick Brown (photo plus reference to www.darrick.com).
• According to his everything2 profile, the mysterious Perl Monk No. 6, sgtbaker, is "a comp-sci major at hope college. i work at BSI where I work on everything sites and am commonly referred to as el mano dereche de Nate or part of manos: hands of nate". BTW, the "hands of nate" nickname is a pun on the title of one of the worst movies ever made Manos: The Hands of Fate. So it seems that nate "forgot" to mention "the hands of nate" aka sgtbaker when reminiscing about the history of the Everything Development Company. Curiously, sgtbaker predicted great things for the Sather programming language back then, which haven't come to pass, yet.
• We learn more about Perl Monk No. 9 yiango, probably the first "non-insider" monk. From his everything 2 profile: "Yiango, also known as Yist to the humans of the world. Self-proclaimed Unix geek boy, definately in love with Computers an Linux. More specifically I am interested in network security....". Still don't know if yiango was a Hope College student or not.
• Perl Monk No. 10 cinder_bdt's everything2 profile highlights a problem with socks: "When I buy socks, I throw all my old ones out and buy 21 new pairs". Why 21? It's all in the math apparently. Update: Re: How many different varieties (color, size, etc) of socks do you have in your sock drawer? suggests he may have moved to Alaska, in which case he will need more socks to prevent frost-bitten toes.

Everything2 References

• Paco
• CowboyNeal
• CmdrTaco
• dbrown
• sgtbaker
• pschoonveld
• nate
• yiango
• cinder_bdt
• Robo
• dem bones
• N-Wing
• Interview with N-Wing
• The E2 Backstory
• Everything Engine
• Everything2 Media LLC
• Block Stackers
• Block Stacking Theory
• Pants are optional
• Holland, Michigan

Updated Nov 25 2014: Minor rewording; removed some unnecessary jokes.