Nicholas Quixote was born in a small fishing village on the edge of the sea in southern Spain. He doesn't ever disclose the exact location because he doesn't want the press bothering his relatives. From a poor family, Mr. Quixote worked very hard boxing shellfish every day after school, sometimes getting home at 2 or 3 am each night. He was intensely proud of this background, and often referred to it fondly. Having saved all of the money he earned as a young man, Mr. Quixote was ready to start a business shortly after enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
One of the youngest millionaires by the time he was 21 years old, Mr. Quixote had invented an obscure substance with his two best friends. It never really did anything but there was a lot of hope that the substance would extend one's lifespan. DuPont so believed that it was a fountain of youth (that they could dust on crops) that they paid him 80 million dollars for it, which in today's dollars is like a trillion. A wealthy undergraduate, Mr. Quixote remarked that "I can't really see the purpose of being taught how to have a career anymore, I'm already rich. I don't want to be an activist, so I'm outta here." He had prepared his whole life for an Ivy League education, now he was preparing for his next future. It was his time to see the big city and the bright lights. First, he practically burrowed himself in cave for two years.
A man of means, Mr. Quixote decided that he needed to better understand the ideas of history. He moved to a luxurious area of Oakland, California and shuttered himself in. He became a voracious reader and spent untold hours in his "idea laboratory" where he housed his growing collection of books and artifacts of history. In his college days, he had sought the ideas of perpetual youth, now he was uncovering the ideas of age and wisdom. His collections increasingly reflected his inward journey. He acquired a top hat of Charles Dickens, and a cane that was used by Dostoevsky in his later years. He even had a piece of what is purported to be the Ten Commandments.
A descendent of an aristocratic family that at one time was friends with Cervantes, he increasingly focused on the work of his namesake. This spirit, and the otherworldliness embodied by this character, inspired the creation of Quixote Broadcasting.
Renaldo Quixote was a Safire that burned against an internet twilight. Just beginning his career in online media several years ago, he was cut down in his prime shortly after Quixote began programming. Claiming to find enlightenment on a Chinese mountaintop, Renaldo stopped traveling the world and poured his energy into what became the vast electronic backbone that today is Quixote Broadcasting's infrastructure. Unfortunately, his new passion was also his undoing. Behind his computer sometimes 20 hours a day, his fingers working feverishly, his brain actually disintegrated from the acute activity. Nicholas remarked that "Renaldo was passionate. It's too bad he didn't have a computer for a brain, God love 'em".
Renaldo was shy and quiet as a boy, but he dreamed of big adventures. He was also a very serious student. When Nicholas earned his fortune, they came up with a scheme where Renaldo would travel and chose artifacts for what Nicholas hoped would be a museum. Renaldo was a traveler and adventurer. He had many interesting stories from those days. He possessed an easygoing spirit and got along well with everyone. This was a counterpoint to his more reclusive brother. He was a very good storyteller and hatched many ideas for programs in production at Quixote today. Doris Duke, one of the Quixote family's newest friends (they met through charity work) recently remarked, "that boy could tell a story. My Lord, he was funny too. I laughed so hard once that my teeth practically fell out!".
Like Nicholas, Renaldo had a physically demanding time during his upbringing. He also worked at the docks, but he didn't box . He mainly cut up octopus, one of the staples of the region.
