Everybody but Chuck works at our shop in Nebraska. He maintains the website from his home office in Minnesota.

Don and Chuck are about as different as two brothers can be and still get along well. One is a staunch Republican, the other is a Yellow Dog Democrat. One camps in a tipi every chance he gets, the other believes "roughing it" means staying at a hotel without in-room coffee service. One has built a business around making primitive shelters, the other set up his first online company in 1983 (long before most of us had even heard of the Internet).

Yup. They're different. Good thing they both have that twisted Strinz sense of humor.

You can read about Chuck, his wife Kathy, and two kids Will and Inga at the family Web site.

You can take a look at the archives of the world's first online humor magazine, ZIP Beep (1984-1990), at www.strinz.com/zipbeep or the website for his award-winning PBS show, Back On The Mississippi, at www.backonthemississippi.com. (Click on the paper clip icon to watch a short clip of the show (because, you see, it's a clip and ... enngghh ... you see, it's like .... ).

Chuck is now working on a new pubic television series about the museums of Minnesota, appropriately titled Museums Of Minnesota. The website is www.MuseumsOfMN.com.

And for even more on too much about an overabundance of insequential information, see www.strinz.com.

Once in a while, Chuck travels to Nebraska to visit old friends and family. When he does, he and Don have the best fun together talking about all sorts of stuff. Then they both walk away, shaking their heads.

With Don's lifestyle and Chuck's early entry into the world of computer communications, you could say they're both pioneers. They even have the arrows in their backs to prove it!