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Robert J WallaceOld magician who likes old cars, and old whisky

From the personal collection

Author: Bob

John Day River from White Elephant Rance

Crickets, birds singing, and wind. I love being out of the city.

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Friday morning, White Elephant Ranch

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More from Condon, Or

There is something special about life in rural small (really, really small) town America. Watching kids play baseball, in a park with two diamonds, behind one grain elevators and the other nothing but open land as far as the eye can see. Or waking up and the only thing you hear is bird songs. No …

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Condon 2019

Some Condon Oregon junkyard photos from the White Elephant ranch. Also cousin Andrew hand feeding a calf born during the harsh winter.

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Fortunes

Early in my career, when I was working on Unix systems I started collecting fortunes, quotations, etc and put them into a “fortune” program. Reload this page to see a new fortune.

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Web pages never die

In 2013, when I was working with HB Design, I had my personal website hosted on a company web server. That server that was used for hosting employee websites has long since been decommission, and between that and my retirement the HTML table generator web tool that I wrote disappeared. Now with my new site …

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Setting up WordPress on AWS

I just setup WordPress on Amazons EC2 service. I didn’t find a good set of instructions on how to do it, but pieced together the following from various sources. Note that my PC is Linux based.

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Resetting mariadb root password in aws

In a linux terminal on the awm ec2 VM, enter the following commands:

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Using Luck….

Some of the most magical effects are effects that have an element of luck involved. While such effects are often impossible to repeat, they are also impossible for the audience to figure out. They are effects that build reputations.

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My first web site

I worked for Intel Corporation from June 1994 to June 1998 (approx.) I eventually came to my senses and left the company. When I first started working there I was in the Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD) and published this page which has been saved Jan. 9th 1997 by the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19970109235501/http://ssd.intel.com/

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