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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/happy-halloween-2/">Happy Halloween!</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>I love Halloween. It&#8217;s so much fun to see all the kids in their little costumes. Heck, it&#8217;s sometimes even fun to see the grownups in their costumes, as well! But most of all, I love to see <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6UoVlfGnv8">Wicket and Pixie all dressed up</a> for the day. I&#8217;ve even been known to dress up in recent years, myself.</p><p>What sort of traditions do you have for Halloween? What are you dressing up as this year &#8211; and are you actually going trick-or-treating? Let&#8217;s hear about your celebration, and be sure to link pictures for us!</p><p>Do you ever even stop to think about the <a
href="http://www.halloweenhistory.org/">history of Halloween</a>? I knew that it was based in old Celtic traditions, and that October 31st is a very sacred holiday for many in the Pagan world &#8211; Samhain. There is much interesting lore to be read if you want to stretch your mind a little.</p><p>You can also learn new things every day by keeping an eye on our community! People post about anything and everything &#8211; even sometimes, the kitchen sink!</p><ul><li><a
href="http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2009/10/30/ads-are-not-all-bad-just-watch-how-they-are-used/">Ads aren&#8217;t all bad &#8211; just watch how they&#8217;re used.</a></li><li><a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>About a year ago, I bought myself a LEGO Death Star. I never have put it together, since I know it&#8217;s going to be a huge undertaking for any one person alone. I decided to invite a few friends over to help me build it for my birthday this year!</p><p>It&#8217;s a 3800-piece Special Edition kit, and I never even opened the box. I did do the unboxing for you all on the camera, so I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll want to <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/lego-unboxing/">check that out</a>.</p><p><http://twitter.com/mona">Mona</a> is one of the friends helping me with this build, and was also the one who was holding the camera for this particular video. She doesn&#8217;t really care so much about the Death Star. She&#8217;s interested in the Minifigs. She has this odd obsession with Chewie, and her reaction to looking at the Minifigs on the box was a hearty: <strong>OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG</strong> (you get the drift). They&#8217;re cute, I suppose. But I&#8217;m a guy. I&#8217;m into the Death Star itself &#8211; and the Darth Vader Minifig, of course.</p><p>I originally uploaded this video to YouTube the day before my birthday, in the hopes that everyone would join us live to watch us working on building the Death Star. We had well over 1000 people watching at several times throughout the day, and that was great!</p><p>Thank you everyone who joined us live on Sunday, and special thanks to all of you who stopped by to help me build!</p><p><ul><li
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/> <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>When was the last time you played with LEGO? What did you build, and did you keep your creation? I <a
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/> <a
href="itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330048">Add to iTunes</a> | <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>When is your birthday? Mine was on Sunday, and a I had a few friends over to celebrate. We had some excellent food, great conversation &#8211; and tons of fun working on building my <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVEoogTTX8E">LEGO Death Star</a>. What&#8217;s your most memorable birthday? What about your ideal birthday? I have to say this was definitely my ideal for a perfect celebration.</p><p>I was joined by a few friends for this auspicious occasion. <a
href="http://www.twitter.com/michellegamboa">Michelle</a> has done a few game review videos for us recently, so I&#8217;m sure you remember her. <a
href="http://twitter.com/mona">Mona</a> has been helping me and the rest of the team put things together for Gnomedex. <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/EllenK76">Ellen</a> is another friend who stopped by for a few hours.</p><p>And of course, I was lucky to have my friend <a
href="http://twitter.com/tracitoguchi">Traci</a> lead the birthday singing via Skype! Doesn&#8217;t she have an amazing voice?!</p><p>I won&#8217;t be telling all of you what I wished for, because then it won&#8217;t come true. Let&#8217;s just say&#8230; if it does, it&#8217;ll be awesome!</p><p><ul><li
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>For all Americans in our community, I hope you had a fun (and safe!) 4th of July. Why not leave a comment, and let the rest of us know how you celebrated today? Did you cook out? Did you and the family head to the fireworks show? Independence Day is always one of my favorite holidays. I love the fireworks and food, of course &#8211; but also I appreciate the meaning the day holds. I sincerely thank all soldiers past and present for fighting for my freedom. Hopefully, you took the time to remember to do the same.</p><p>Our community was pretty quiet today, likely due to so many people out celebrating! However, I did find several excellent things that I wanted to pass along to all of you.</p><ul><li><a
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com/mothers-day-ipod/">Mother&#8217;s Day iPod</a> is a post from <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>I was fortunate to have my mom with me during Mother&#8217;s Day this year. I gave her an iPod, which is kind of funny. Up until now, she&#8217;s never wanted one. She had no idea how they worked, nor if she&#8217;d ever use the thing. She took it into an Apple store with her, and explained she had no clue what to do. They talked in circles around her about syncing and such. She walked out more confused than when they started.</p><p>Mom is a trooper though! She says that when she gets home, she will sync the iPod, since she has to choose between &#8220;sync or swim&#8221;. Yes &#8211; I get my sense of humor from her. She loves technology, of course. She still has the first transistor radio her father bought her several years ago &#8211; and it still works!</p><p>The iPod I bought for her was personalized, and even has her email address engraved on the back. During the video, I taught her to open the browser and search for something using the touch screen. I explained to her about Apps, and I have a feeling once she dives into looking at them she&#8217;ll go crazy! There are just so many cool things she can do using her iPod.</p><p>Did she roll her eyes when I told her she could subscribe to my podcast?!?! Seriously?!?!</p><p>Just kidding, Mom. You know I love you, and think you&#8217;re the best. Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!</p><p><ul><li
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