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Bill Hallahan

Happy Birthday Harry! May you have many more!

Bill Hallahan

Doomo, According to the NCB news story at the link posted by Jim Maloney, Roy is not having the contraversial stem cell treatment that involves cells from fetuses. From http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4668038/detail.html: Dr. Albert Scheller told the German Press Agency that Horn "is undergoing stem ce...

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The advantage of modern technology is that anyone can publish.

The disadvantage of modern technology is that anyone can publish.

Bill Hallahan

I agree. I saw their Cyrano de Bergerac card routine last year. That routine is great. Every routine the do is great. And their presentation of the standard stage illusions that they perform is unique. And of course, their presentation of Houdinis Metamorphosis is stunning. I also like that you get ...

Bill Hallahan

My major issue with this article is that Mr. Cataquet places people into classifications without even taking into consideration that fact that we as Magicians are first and foremost humans, and as a part of human nature we want to be involved with people who have the same likes interests as we do. ...

Bill Hallahan

This is the Roshman Principle.

The routine The Linking Rings, where three borrowed rings are linked uses this principle.

Bill Hallahan

I make a distinction between people's belief in the Eastern philosophy of the uncaused cause, whether their belief is in a sentient being (or beings) or some other form of metaphysics and the belief in the abilities of specific people. People can be tested. The reluctance of most purported psychics ...

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I expect you are correct that my figures are low. Thanks for the correction. I was responding with figures recalled from my youth. My Dad was the director of libraries in two cities. Both cities were smaller than Huntsville. Perhaps he said "...on the order of 100,000 books." I was respond...

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Magicam, If you read my second to last post, at the top I was writing what I believe will happen eventually, so what can exist now isn't really relevant to my previous arguments. Chris responded to many of your points. I'll address some of your other points out of context. First, a typical city libr...

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I do think Blaine is a good artist. I dont discount the opinion of the masses readily when the longitudinal cross section includes inner city kids, college students, corporate guys wearing suits, and some supermodels. :) To be sure, the masses prefer the Beatles to J.S. Bach. Theres something to be ...

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mrgoat wrote: And I bloody love the smell of my Greater Magic! My copy of Greater Magic makes me sneeze. :) I think I have to put it in the sun for a few hours! After all my ramblings in my posts above, I am glad I have a hardcover edition of that book! Still, I consider this an irrational feeling. ...

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There are two things being discussed here. Whats going to happen soon, and what will happen eventually. Below, Im writing about what I believe will happen eventually. Magicam wrote: Faulty analogy or not, there are functional aspects to a book which will I doubt will ever be replaced by an electroni...

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Fake!

To me, all the purported psychics appear similar to someone who predicts the name of a person who's wearing a nametag. Do I believe theyre psychic? No way.

Bill Hallahan

I have read entire books using my Palm handheld at night. It has the advantage of a built in light source and I can lay my head on the pillow and read. I do have a handheld with a 320 X 480 pixel screen with adjustable brightness. That helps make using a handheld bearable. As I wrote in my last post...

Bill Hallahan

Real books are currently much more portable. You can take a book with you from room to room or even on a trip and easily continue to read it. Also, you dont have to worry about the battery life of a book. There are some new screen technologies that use very little power, but currently they sacrifice...

Bill Hallahan

You can get them here:

Green Backed Bicycle Cards

Bill Hallahan

Wow, I can't believe you don't know Jim Sisti. He published the Magic Menu, one of the premier magic publications for restaurant magicians. He has performed, lectured, published, and been involved in the magic scene for over 25 years, perhaps longer. He is on the list of Internations Stars of Magic....

Bill Hallahan

Michael Close has stated several times in his review columns that his standard for whether something should be published is if it is an improvement in "effect, presentation, or method". This is interesting as this is Maskelyne and Devant's discriminator for Normal Art. However, if the ori...

Bill Hallahan

I like it. Nice routine.

A hypothetical "real" magician would do a seamless total restoration, so I think this looks great.

I like Paul Harris's routine too.

Update: I think I do like J.C. Wagner's Torn and Restored best... so far.

Bill Hallahan

The audience thought he was great. I thought he was great too. Of course we saw the methods but clearly the audience didn't so his technique, however imperfect, was good enough. And I also agree he did well under adverse circumstances. Exposing that cards are palmed didn't bother me. Many non-magici...

Bill Hallahan

Thanks Clay. I enjoy debating, but sometimes I'm overly argumentative and I lack the sense to stop. For the record, I have never invested in any magic related items. Anything I sold related to magic was always sold for less than I originally paid for it, at least so far. I've lost in many eBay aucti...

Bill Hallahan

Reread my previous post with the following in mind. - The long-term goal of all investors is to make a profit. The word invest means: 1 : to commit (money) in order to earn a financial return 2 : to make use of for future benefits or advantages If they aren't going to try to make a profit then they ...

Bill Hallahan

And thus why I wrote that "... while equilibrium exists in theory, it rarely occurs [i.e., we rarely know it or can determine it] in real life." Something occurring and knowing about that occurrence are different things. In a free market economy (and that qualification is necessary) equil...

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Magicam, Imagine an investor in an investment chat room complaining about hobbyists driving down the profit on their investment by driving up the price of an item. Would they be wrong? Why? Magicam wrote: If I recall my econ classes, "artificially" high prices on supply and demand curves j...

Bill Hallahan

True, cats dont bite the necks of their young, but felines do pick up their young by the skin just above their neck towards their head, sometimes perhaps even on their head. The skin is very loose there in a cat. Its not in a person. I also read this tale of accidental injury previously. Someone had...

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I don't know his e-mail address, but from this article by Wesley James I learned that Robert Swadling is in England and also that Mr. James provided Robert Swadling's phone number to David Roth who then called him. Here's where I found this. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu...

Bill Hallahan

How about converting a small insect into a large one? Perhaps a radiation leak causes this! The tiny bug goes into the illusion and a giant bug, i.e. a person in a bug suit comes out. Theres a topic somewhere in here about producing a corporate executive. That topic provides several relatively inexp...

Bill Hallahan

The coins being visible and at the fingertips does take the effect of Coins Across to an entirely new level. Surely we all agree with that. And I have seen Jonathan Townsend credited with that idea in print. Magicians often hide effects with the hands, handkerchiefs, and boxes, usually because they ...

Bill Hallahan

Pete Biro doesn't know me at all, but Ive been a huge fan of his for a long time, even though Ive never met him. Ive only seen his online posts. He knows what to write, how to write it, and when to write it. Hes got a great sense of humor. He never has a bad thing to say about anyone. I have the fee...

Bill Hallahan

Conus is correct. It's illegal in the United States to use the cell phone blockers. The relevant statute refers to "intentional interference." If it could be proved you used anything, even a drill, to intentionally interfere with radio signals, then that could incur a 10,000 dollar fine an...

Bill Hallahan

Mr. Racherbaumer, Thanks, thats a fantastic post! I only have one thing to add. Youre correct that the effect predated Erdnase. The effect and part of the method used in "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" goes back at least as far as the year 1740 when it was described in Nouvelles Recreations, P...

Bill Hallahan

David Blaine might not be a F.I.S.M. World champion like Michael Ammar, but his magic isn't bad. It's not the difficulty of the sleights that matters. It's whether you astonish people. David Blaine does astonish people, he astonishes them a lot. I know several non-magicians who think he is amazing. ...

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