Pete McCabe by same
Professionally, for the last 25 years I have been a computer
programmer, a writer and scriptwriter—in advertising and television at
every level from local San Diego rent-a-car software company datasheets
to a prime time network sitcom staff—and a teacher. Not to mention a
Domino's delivery driver—I still hold the box-folding record at the
Pacific Beach branch.
I'm
currently
an
English
teacher,
the best job in
the world for a family man with a beautiful wife and two young sons.
Other
than
that
I'm
a
classic amateur magician. I
love magic and I spend a lot of time on it. I write about it, because
I'm a writer, and I create tricks, because I used to be a computer
programmer (programming and trick creating are very similar, at least the way I do them they
are), and I write scripts for tricks for myself and others,
because I think it's the best way to make great magic.
Free Download
Magic has given me many great friends and experiences over the years.
So to give a little something back, I plan to post things here for free
download. They could be anything: a trick, a script, an essay, who
knows. Mostly it will probably be tricks—I have a lot of unpublished
tricks. My plan is to put up something different every month or so;
we'll see how long that lasts.
The
first
free
download is a card trick called "The Card At Your Number."
The effect is this: You take a deck out of a cardcase, which has a thin
paper band taped around it. On the front of the band it says:
Prediction. The spectator shuffles the deck and returns it, and then
names any number from 1 to 52. You remove the band from the case and
show what it says on the back, which is this: The card at your number
is the Jack of Clubs. You count down to the spectator’s number and it’s
the Jack of Clubs.