What’s fun is you can listen to his music too.

But at the party I met some interesting technologists. Steve introduced me to David LaVallee.

Don’t know who David is? I didn’t either.

But he worked with Steve Jobs for years and, while at Apple, was the guy who pushed Jobs to buy Garageband. He also worked on the original Java team and at Disney for a while.

He’s now working at Microsoft on the MSN Messenger team. His blog is fun to read.

What else did he do? He helped Steve Jobs do his presentations. We talked about why Gates’ presentations are never as good as Jobs. We joked that he should go to Bill and say “you can only put three words on each slide.”

Ahh, that’s what we do for fun in Seattle on a Saturday night.

Oh, and Steve said the guy who runs the Google Video team was at the party too, but I missed him.

Steve said that he learned that Google video was done by four people over four months. That reminds me to go looking for small teams at Microsoft that are doing kick ass things.

Well, hope your Saturday evening was as fun!

Oh, and while we’re talking about Garageband, I see that Mary Jo Foley says that Microsoft is developing a Garageband competitor. Hmmm, I love it when Mary Jo finds out stuff that I don’t know about Microsoft. I gotta ask about that one on Monday when I’m back in the office.