- Can you watch IBA/CCT homepage for a few minutes?
- Sure, no problem.
- Ah. What was that?
- That's about the only kind of question I'm asked with any frequency. "FAQ" will be defined loosely from here on out.
- Fine with me. What is it you do?
- I'm a producer for the Web sites of a group of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. I made the leap to online in summer 2009, after many years as a newspaper editor.
- So you studied journalism?
- I went to UCLA, which doesn't have a journalism program. It has a pretty good paper, though, and I worked on that. My degree is in film.
- Are you from California?
- Historically, yes; personally, no. My family had been in Southern California since before the turn of the century, but my parents moved to Seattle a year before I would've claimed native status. I spent 10 of my growing-up years in Fort Collins, Colo., and I consider that my hometown.
- Oh, I was in Fort Collins once.
- Oddly, many people have been. (Odd because it's not really on the way to anywhere.) Some people I know have found it uncomfortably small-townish, but David -- who is one tough critic -- is quite fond of Fort C.
- Is David your husband?
- No, but we've been together since 1989 and we have the lodge and the baby and all.
- Steade -- rhymes with "dead"?
- Rhymes with "speed."
- Thank you.
- Thank you.