This is something I am playing with.
Effect
The basic effect is that four aces are placed into the deck at random locations and then the deck is shuffled multiple times. Then five hands of poker are dealt out, with the dealer getting the four aces.
Another cutting the aces
Here is another method for cutting the aces. You start with a well shuffled deck. I usually have the spectator shuffle the deck several times.
Take the deck back and perform my “two step cull“, which will bring the aces to the top of the deck.
Continue reading “Another cutting the aces”CATO
This is a simple four ace trick that is self working using the CATO principal (Cut and Turn Over). I present it as a lesson in fate, that your choices in life don’t always matter.
Start with four Aces on the table, face up. Add three face down cards on top of each Ace.
Continue reading “CATO”I am a cat lover
I have to admit that I am a cat lover. I can tolerate dogs, some I even like. But cats have my heart. One thing I enjoyed when I was traveling was seeing and taking photographs of cats.
Cat in Valbonne, France
NW Portland, Oregon
Aubry, cat that visited the office, Portland, Oregon
Cat in window, NW Portland, Oregon
Word games for Scrabble training
I enjoy word games like Scrabble and decided to write a couple of games that I could use both for the pleasure of playing, and also as training aids for playing Scrabble and other word games.
Anagram game
The first I wrote is an anagram finding game, simply called wordgame. It shows seven “tiles” any you try to find all of the anagrams.
Word finder game
The other game I wrote is a “word finder“. It can be played on mobile (phone) or desktop devices.
Axtell Lineage
See the book “Axtell Geneology“, my grandfather is listed on page 286.
| Person | Birth year | Death year | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Axtell (Mother) | 1920 | 1995 | 75 | |
| Joseph Eugene Axtell | 1889 | 1945 | 56 | |
| John Stockton Axtell | 1845 | 1935 | 90 | |
| Rufus Dodd Axtell | 1815 | 1847 | 32 | |
| Thomas Axtell | 1780 | 1853 | 73 | |
| Daniel Axtell | 1748 | 1826 | 78 | Fought in Revolutionary War. Bio |
| Thomas Axtell | 1727 | 1749 | 22 | |
| Daniel Axtell | 1673 | 1735 | 62 | |
| Henry Axtell | 1641 | 1676 | 35 | Immigrated to US |
| Thomas Axtell | 1619 | 1646 | 27 | |
| William Axtell | 1587 | 1638 | 51 | |
| William Axtell | 1561 | unknown | ||
| William Axtell | 1541 | 1568 | 27 | |
| John Axtell | 1496 | 1553 | 57 | |
| Henrie Axtell | 1474 | 1541 | 67 | |
| Henry Thomas Axtell | 1435 | 1500 | 65 | |
| Thomas William Axtell | 1381 | 1418 | 37 |
Wallace Family Tree
I have traced the paternal linage back to my great-great-great grandfather. Most of this came from the family Bible and was cross checked with records available on the web. My maternal lineage goes further back and can be seen here.
Continue reading “Wallace Family Tree”Jane Elizabeth Axtell Wallace
Forward
I think it is ironic that the people you spend most of your life knowing, i.e. your parents are often the people you know the least about. I can’t say if that is true in general, but with my parents, and my knowledge of their life, it has been. I know very little of their early years, and even of the years I grew up, my knowledge of them is just about the relationship with myself. I know very little of the relationships, the hopes, and the disappointments they felt, those things that are common in everyone ’s life. It was because of this I asked my mother to tell me about her life. I asked her to start to write down her memories. It was apparently difficult for her to do. But she made an effort. I kept at her to keep writing. This is the result. As I discover old photographs of her, and her sister and brother, this story helps those photos come alive. I don’t think she understood how important it was to me to know who she was as a person, rather than as a mother. And while I wish I had more of her story, I am grateful to her for what she was able to give.
Robert Wallace
Continue reading “Jane Elizabeth Axtell Wallace”France Trip, 1978
I had been working at FPS for about six months when I was sent, with a team, to Paris, France to install an AP120B at Dassault Aviation. This was my first trip overseas, I was 27 years old. Unfortunately, being a lowly team member on my first trip overseas I did not write a trip report. Now 40 plus years later I am scanning old slides from the trip and trying to remember some of the stories from the trip.
Continue reading “France Trip, 1978”Index to Dai Vernon Revelations videos
Volume 1
Gary Ouellet Intro
The Story Behind the Stars of Magic Series
Vernon on Think-of-a-Card, Dunninger,
Brainwave Deck
Vernon on Effects
Triumph-the Vernon Triumph Shuffle
and the Proper Presentation
Story of the Vernon False Shuffle
Practice & Improve Your Magic
Keeping Notes on Your Magic
Cutting the Aces-
Another Vernon Card Classic
Vernon on Passes, False Cuts
Irv Weiner’s Opening to Cutting the Aces
The Story is the Entertaining Part of the Trick
Story of the Ambitious Card
Vernon Performs the Ambitious Card
Vernon Explains an Ambitious Card Move