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My Birthday Present: Building the LEGO Death Star

Chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:31:58 +0000

My Birthday Present: Building the LEGO Death Star is a post from Chris Pirillo

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About a year ago, I bought myself a LEGO Death Star. I never have put it together, since I know it’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!

It’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’m sure you’ll want to check that out.

Mona 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’t really care so much about the Death Star. She’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: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG (you get the drift). They’re cute, I suppose. But I’m a guy. I’m into the Death Star itself – and the Darth Vader Minifig, of course.

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!

Thank you everyone who joined us live on Sunday, and special thanks to all of you who stopped by to help me build!

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iPhone Unboxing

Chris — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:00:57 +0000

iPhone Unboxing is a post from Chris Pirillo

http://live.pirillo.com/ – Watch me cringe as I unbox my very own iPhone …

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My Very Own iPhone

Chris — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:46:03 +0000

My Very Own iPhone is a post from Chris Pirillo

http://live.pirillo.com/ – Ponzi bought me an early birthday gift. Oh boy …

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I Got My Birthday Present Early

Chris — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:13:26 +0000

I Got My Birthday Present Early is a post from Chris Pirillo

I’m always grateful for gifts, but I do have a few guidelines for family members who ASK ME WHAT I WOULD RATHER HAVE. I do have a running list of stuff I’d like to have but would never actually purchase for myself – and I also have a list of things that I would much rather purchase for myself:

Socks
Shoes
Shirts
Pants
CDs / DVDs
Software
Food
Books

There are also things I never would have expected to receive from anybody in a million years…

In other words: I was iPwnd by my own wife.

My Birthday

Chris — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:55:43 +0000

My Birthday is a post from Chris Pirillo

Just like I wrote earlier… it’s my birthday. Birthdays are fun, arenâ€™t they? On my fifth birthday, I got to fly around in a Cessna plane above the city of Des Moines, IA (thinking I wanted to become a pilot). On my sixth birthday, my parents hired a magician (thinking I wanted to become a prestidigitator). On my seventh birthday, I donâ€™t remember much because someone spiked the fruit punch (just kidding, but wouldnâ€™t that make a wonderful story for the grandkids). On my eighth birthday, I stopped keeping track of my birthdays as I was quickly becomingâ€¦ an â€œold man.â€�? Remember the days when “21″ was old? Neither do I – and they say that memory is the first thing to go. The only thing I want this year is a bigger chest.

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