Carlos Gaona is a programmer living in Santiago, Chile. He met Chris while doing an interview on hackers for his ‘zine; the two became friends and met weekly for informal pizza dinners at Chris’s apartment, where they discussed writing, philosophy, and science. Carlos worked on the Mindpixel project with Chris, and collected his archives after his death.

Michael Spivey is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Merced. In 2005, he collaborated with Chris and Rick Dale on a paper titled “Action Dynamics Reveal Parallel Competition in Decision Making.” The paper was published in 3008 in the journal Psychological Science. Using McKinstry’s Mindpixel data, the paper “suggests that a dynamic approach to mental processing—an approach that has already provided descriptions of perception, attention, and categorization - may shed new light on high-level cognition.”

Alphabet Soup is an internet blogger living in Chile. He and Chris shared interests in philosophy, psychology, computer science and high-level calculus.

Bruce Tulloch first met Chris in junior high. They reconnected again at the University of Winnipeg, and later when Bruce became a writer for Chris’s failed CR6 internet soap opera.

Cristóbal Valenzuela is a journalist with TVN in Chile. He conducted an interview in July 2000 in NYC with Chris for Informes Especiales’s special on hackers.

Diana Messina is an artist living in Santiago, Chile. She dated Chris in 2005.

Theresa Burke is a producer for the CBC living in Toronto. She first met Chris in 2000 while covering a hacker convention in New York. The two reconnected when Chris moved to Toronto in 2002.

Samir Girdhar is the director of IT for the University of Toronto’s electrical and computer engineering department. He became close friends with Chris, even letting him stay on his couch for 8 months.