Two Deuces Entertainment

Food Blog Forum

Scott - Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:43:41 +0000

A truly wonderful addition to the Two Deuces portfolio of clients is the new Food Blog Forum site. The new direction in blogging has got to be community! Food Blog Forum has capture the idea of community and is taking off with it. Based around people helping people make things better, this site is truly inspirational. We are proud to help them build custom plugins, pages and templates to further their story. Even if food blogging isn’t your idea of fun, check out their website for ideas on how to build your online community. Here is their website: Food Blog Forum.

New Asian Cuisine

Scott - Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:36:28 +0000

New Asian Cuisine is on the forefront of next generation of Blogs. New Asian Cuisine is in the process of transforming from a blog based platform to a new community site based around Asian Cuisine. Incredible vision is leading this site as one to watch in the upcoming years. Two deuces is providing back end support for the site including custom css, custom plugins and developing custom pages that help meet the goals of the owners. Check it out at: New Asian Cuisine.

Steamy Kitchen

Scott - Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:25:43 +0000

Steamy Kitchen is one of our favorite sites to work with. Jaden has been instrumental in keeping her site fresh and new. Steamy Kitchen has been constantly evolving and improving. we enjoy being part of this fantastic project. Two deuces has contributed both custom site layout as well as custom wordpress plugin support the site. Check it out the Steamy Kitchen!

Poker X Factor Bankroll Manager

Scott - Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:07:52 +0000

One of our most prominent and consistently used projects has been our work for Poker X Factor. We designed, built and integrated their Bankroll Manager Application. The project incorporates some of the latest technologies in the areas of databases, php scripting, and javascript. We are currently in the process of developing the next generation Bankroll Manager Application and look forward to seeing it launched live. You can check out the project over at Poker X Factor, the webs premier online poker training site.

Testing a Post from Posterous

Posterous — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:33:26 +0000

This is just a trial post to say Hello from Posterous. I have included a picture to see if that works to!

Posted via email from twodeuces’s posterous

Food Blogger Camp – Ixtapa Mexico

Scott - Admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:41:15 +0000

Andrew and Nathan (Photo From: whiteonricecouple.com)

Just got back from a fun week at Food Blogger Camp. Although I was not directly involved, I had a great time watching the kids and participating here and there. Our friends Todd and Diane from whiteonricecouple.com posted this highlights video. It’s a great video of the Club Med resort as well. Watch it, but be warned that it may induce cravings to go the next food blogger camp! Here is the video:

Club Med Ixtapa Food Bloggers Conference from White On Rice Couple on Vimeo.

What Poker Can Teach Us!

Scott - Admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:48:25 +0000

I saw this article on someone’s facebook page. I thought it was such a great read that I wanted to post it hear. I particularly enjoyed reading about how so many of our politicians played poker while in office. Can you image being invited for a “Home Game” at the White House? Go figure, yet it is nearly impossible to not think that current regulations, laws and general feelings align against playing poker on the internet. I don’t get it yet.

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Poker-Can-Teach-Us/48641/

Florida Hog Hunting

Scott - Admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:58:56 +0000

It appears that hog hunting may be a necessity soon in Florida. Wild boar populations are booming in Floridas parks and wildlife refuges. Unfortunately, they are highly destructive and not natural to the area. Florida has the second largest wild hog population after Texas. Check out the link below.

http://www.wtsp.com/video/default.aspx?aid=91910

I have been fortunate to enjoy both the labor of hunting some of these creatures and enjoying the fine smoked pork from them. I must admit I have gained a greater respect of where our food comes from. When I asked my oldest son (age 6) where his food comes from he answered the grocery store where mom buys it. Now of course he understands where it comes from better, and to boot, he even ask for wild boar for dinner!

Wild Hogs coming out to feed in the morning.

Classic art of a photo.

Scott - Admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:57:00 +0000

This has to be one of my all time favorite pictures my wife took for her blog over at steamykitchen.com! I hope you enjoy it!

Fixing our Sony Projection TV

Scott - Admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:24:36 +0000

While watching TV a few days ago we noticed that in the corners and parts of the middle of the screen were messed up. It was like watching one of those old 3D movies, you know, the ones you needed to wear those silly red and green glasses. The weird part was that some of the screen was perfectly normal. After a few stabs using the “Autofocus” button resulted in far less than stellar repair. I decided it was time to hit the internet in search of a diagnosis.

After much digging and reading I gathered what I was experiencing was a convergence issue, most likely related to some chips ( STK392-560 ) going bad on the board. Seems that many people were experiencing the same issues with their Sony projection TV’s. Now mine was an older KP-51HW40 and wasn’t really mentioned much. But after making a few calls to local shops, it seemed the going rate to get it fixed was between $400-500. A little steep for a repair, when a new 50″ 720p replacement was around $800, not to mention it would have been a step up from the 1080i, but that’s a different article.

Everyone did seem to say that it wasn’t that difficult to replace the chips, BUT they did keep mentioning that you needed to get good original chips and not some cheap rip offs that were all over the internet. So armed with a few good chips, I ventured into the guts of my TV. First off let me say that my TV is built into an entertainment center. And when I say built in, I mean it’s a huge production to get it into a spot where I can even work on it, let alone rip it apart. None the less, after locating the chips, the job seemed fairly straight forward. Desolder the old chips, replace with the new ones ensuring they had heat sink paste between them and the heatsinks, and then re-solder the chips. I think the whole repair took me less time than it did to get the TV out and apart. I will say that being the careful type, I did write down in my notebook exactly where every screw and cable connection came from.

After all was said and done, I moved the TV back and pressed the on button to see if we had life. IT WAS A SUCCESS!!! So I did what all great home repair dads do…I sat down and watch two hours of TV!