tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17137115393988325782024-03-14T01:52:53.828-07:00The Musings of Gatorchuckie"Gators, Technology, Sports... oh my!!"
** A Florida Gator trapped in Big 10 Country **Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-29242759830328959142012-02-26T00:42:00.002-08:002012-02-26T00:45:40.420-08:00Nike+ FuelBand vs BodyMedia FIT ArmbandFebruary 25, 2012
I have been contributing to this whole ‘Quantified Self’ trend by wearing a BodyMedia FIT Armband for the last two years to track personal physical stats like calories burned, sleep efficiency, steps taken, etc. And you know what? I’ve been pretty happy with it. However, when Nike announced the Nike+ FuelBand on January 19, 2012, I was immediately interested in what Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-24272124478956221102012-02-25T22:41:00.001-08:002012-02-25T22:41:05.513-08:00Motorola Beats Apple to the Wrist
October 18, 2011
Motorola announced today that they would be coming out with two new devices: the Droid RAZR and the MotoACTV.
The DroidRAZR is their newest smartphone, a super-thin, larger screen Android phone that is sweet. But the DroidRAZR doesn’t introduce anything groundbreaking, as incremental improvements to smartphones will continue to evolve, with faster, thinner, clearer, Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-51126033127385319022012-02-25T22:35:00.001-08:002012-02-25T22:35:34.526-08:00Should You Get the iPhone 4S?A repost of my Tumblr blog post...
Whenever a new Apple product comes out, I get questions from my friends on my opinion on the new stuff (like my post last year on the iPhone 4 launch, or here with my comments on the first iPad launch)... With last Friday's launch of the new iPhone 4S, here's my take on it.
First, if you have the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 already, make sure you understand thatGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-37799865123146099282010-06-29T08:16:00.000-07:002010-06-29T08:24:31.267-07:00iPhone4 vs iPhone 3GS - My TakeAs a super-early adopter of the iPhone4 (Apple actually sent me one the day before launch date!), I'm often asked by current iPhone 3GS users if the iPhone4 is worth the upgrade. Now that I've had mine for nearly a week, I'm pasting a recent email response to just this type of inquiry so I can just point folks to this post!**********************************************June 29, 2010W-Stopped by Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-83142345519174994702010-04-05T06:58:00.000-07:002010-04-05T12:22:02.808-07:00Musings of GC - April 5, 2010I decided today to write up a pseudo-stream of consciousness post today, with random fodder on things going on over the weekend...RODDICKCongrats to Andy Roddick for winning the title at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. This tournament will always be 'The Lipton' in my mind, and is probably the most prestigious non-major out there. He showed the ability to change strategies in the middle of Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-90933605619317389152010-01-10T07:01:00.000-08:002010-01-10T10:16:45.574-08:00Just What Urban Meyer's Doctors OrderedUrban Meyer’s doctors should be somewhat relieved. While they probably can’t be too happy that he has yet to officially start his leave of absence, clearly his actions in the recruiting arena over the last two weeks are paying off with big dividends—and ultimately may lead to the healthy recovery that he knows he needs. <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-25907196387737781042009-08-23T06:33:00.000-07:002009-08-23T07:59:02.486-07:00A Day at the Cincinnati ATP EventThe 2009 quarterfinals at Cincinnati's premiere tennis event was just too good to pass up. With the Western & Southern ATP Master event occurring every August here in my own backyard as the last big tune up to the US Open, I somehow managed to not attend a single match this year... that is until I saw the men's quarterfinal schedule.The top 4 players in the world all playing on the same Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-11096628760852753522009-05-28T16:18:00.000-07:002009-05-28T17:31:42.411-07:00It's Official: Gators Consensus #1 In Pre-season College Football RankingsToday was a glorious day. One I look forward to every year!This morning I stopped by the local grocery where I occasionally stop for coffee before work. After I grabbed a venti Pike Place, I passed by the magazine aisle -- and there they were, in all of their wonderful, colorful, glossy gridiron glory... 2009 pre-season college football magazines from Lindy's, Athlon, and The Sporting News!!Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-40787243724726773512009-03-12T14:58:00.000-07:002009-03-12T19:59:48.309-07:00A Night of Social Media ExperimentsA funny thing happened on the evening of March 11, 2009. Two separate, unrelated 'experiments' were performed using social media and emerging Web2.0 technologies. What're the odds?First, P&G hosted a "digital hack" night with CEOs and leaders of major companies in the digital marketing space. Executives from Facebook, Google, Nielsen and a wide array of other digital media-relevant Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-39510120582917915402009-03-07T14:32:00.000-08:002009-03-07T15:28:36.068-08:00Gators' slim NCAA hopes stay alivePhew! Hurdle number one has been overcome. Two more wins, and I think the Gators squeak into the tourney!By beating the Kentucky Wildcats in the O'Dome today, the Gators' faint hopes for getting into the NCAA Tournament are still alive. After losing 3 straight to LSU, Tennessee and a horrible loss at Mississippi State, the Gators finally came through today in a must-win game.However, I hope Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-28936601501234631842009-03-06T06:58:00.000-08:002009-03-06T11:09:29.168-08:0020 Years of Gator Athletics - Top Five Last Second HeartbreaksWarning: Reliving some of these memories may cause headaches, heart failure, and a need to look at 1996, 2006 and 2008 football highlight films, or 2006 and 2007 basketball highlightsAfter having written a blog on the Top Five greatest Gator plays and hits, I decided to put together a follow-up list of the biggest heartbreaks in Florida athletics over the last 20 years. The list is football Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-18886624387593541802009-03-04T19:19:00.000-08:002009-03-04T20:56:18.017-08:00Laveranues Coles Follows 'Partner in Crime' to BengalsIt was announced today in Cincinnati that the Bengals and former New York Jet receiver Laveranues Coles agreed to a four-year contract worth $28 million. The Bengals will have a formal press conference tomorrow to introduce Coles, who is expected to replace Pro Bowl receiver T. J. Houshmandzadeh after having just recently signed as a free agent with the Seattle Seahawks.Being a Floridian who Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-88817793439057421832009-02-28T08:52:00.000-08:002009-02-28T11:16:05.443-08:00Digital Media Hologramming - WOW!Chalk this up to one of those things that our kids 20 years from now will be saying "of course you can do that... everyone does it". But right now, this is the first I've seen anything like this, and it's just VERY COOL!Here's a quick video of yours truly doing this--did this video and demo by myself this morning after tennis, so sorry about the bad production and lighting ;) -- and I recommendGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-16436019424695148412009-02-01T05:46:00.000-08:002009-02-01T06:57:50.714-08:002009 Australian Open: Nadal Outlasts Federer in Five SetsRafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer Sunday in the men's final of the 2009 Australian. The match was a tense, back-and-forth marathon five-setter that was definitely worthy of what's becoming a legendary series and rivalry between the world's top two tennis players. Nadal pulled out a 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 victory for his sixth grand slam title, keeping Federer from winning a record-tying 14thGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-46330954060982256122009-01-31T23:21:00.000-08:002009-02-01T00:31:08.255-08:00Gator Basketball Looks Like NIT May Be Waiting...AgainThanks to the ESPN Full Court package and GatorVision, I've been able to pretty much catch all of the Florida Gator men's basketball games this season. And, after watching Tennessee soundly beat the Gators last night 79-63, it's clear to me that the Gators will be a perennial 'bubble team' from now all the way up to Selection Sunday.Although Alex Tyus is slowly evolving into a smaller version ofGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-27063169840646660122009-01-31T09:53:00.000-08:002009-01-31T11:05:57.419-08:002009 Australian Open: Hoping The Men's Final Isn't Like The Women'sSo, I stayed up last night to watch the 2009 Australian Open Women's Final, hoping for inspiring, dramatic tennis from Serena Williams and Dinara Safina. After watching a reply of the Nadal-Verdasco match for the second time, I guess I was thinking--make that 'hoping'--that the same high-quality tennis would repeat itself on the women's side.Boy was I wrong.I expected Serena to be her normal Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-64962483339569105582009-01-30T13:24:00.001-08:002009-01-31T08:15:49.976-08:00Top 5 - Worst Product AdsI just saw the front page of Ad Age yesterday claiming the Snuggie marketing campaign to be a huge success. This forced me to have a minor rant in Twitter and Facebook about how our society has sunken to such lows as to fall for such a product--I mean c'mon!! It is promoted as 'the blanket with sleeves'.Americans, wake up!! You probably have one already...it's called a bathrobe!I will admit Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-4722127657339167942009-01-24T23:14:00.000-08:002009-01-26T10:05:42.669-08:0020 Years of Gator Football - Top 5 Plays and Hits!As I continue to bask in the glow that is the success of University of Florida athletics over the last three years (read: two football championships and two basketball championships), I recently wondered to myself what were the BIG MOMENTS over the last twenty years in Gator athletics. So, I've put together a couple of lists below. Feel free to comment!Top 5 Gator Football PLAYS:#5Wuerffel to Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-52653319953115748252009-01-11T08:49:00.001-08:002009-01-11T22:50:47.571-08:00Conference Records in 2008-09 Bowls: SEC, Pac-10 shineHo hum. Another college football season came to an end Thursday, and it was yet another SEC team that was declared the National Champion. The last 3 champions have been from the SEC (Florida, LSU, Florida), and the SEC has 4 champions in the last 6 years. Even though there may continue to be debates on who the best team in the country was this year (Utah, USC, Texas--each have valid beefs), Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-5111989412465346382009-01-09T14:16:00.000-08:002009-01-10T14:32:37.265-08:00A Plea For the Gators to STOP WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS!!Dear Florida Gators, I write to you pleading for your help in some personal issues I am having at home. Can you please, for the love of God, please STOP WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS!! It is hurting me psychologically, emotionally, and financially. Enough already. You see, my husband is a Gator alumni, and therefore a huge Gator fan. (Let's call him 'Catorghuckie' to protect his identity). And he doesGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-69715115548279114552009-01-08T13:25:00.000-08:002009-01-10T20:08:27.735-08:00Republican Party: Learn Social Media or 'get ripped'"And if we don't get it together, Barack Obama is going to be ripping us a new one for eight years." - Gary Emineth, South Dakota head of the GOP when talking about the need for the Republican party to exploit social media. First, let me start by saying that I'm not loyally aligned with any particular political party (I'm registered Republican, but I often vote across party lines), and that this Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-30851723768003172542009-01-08T00:32:00.000-08:002009-01-10T20:46:02.820-08:00Moved back to Blogger.comThe Official Blog of Gatorchuckie has moved back to http://gatorchuckie.blogspot.com because WordPress does not allow java scripting on their site. Boo!Gatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-78201425095626591552009-01-07T23:50:00.000-08:002009-01-10T13:25:42.541-08:00A look back at the odds for NCAA Football champsOne day away from the final game of the college football year, I pulled up some data that I stored on Evernote back in July on my iPhone. Below is the beginning of the year betting odds for the college football season. With Florida and Oklahoma the only possible teams to lay claim to the National Championship on Thursday night, it looks like the line makers were pretty solid...as both teams onlyGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-24303879591060570632009-01-07T12:25:00.000-08:002009-01-07T12:26:56.048-08:00Moved to WordpressGatorchuckie has moved over to WordPress, with it's better free stats tracking.http://gatorchuckie.wordpress.comGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713711539398832578.post-82761067444231431262009-01-06T17:36:00.000-08:002009-01-10T13:21:07.011-08:00Procter and Gamble CEO is a Gator fan!!It's just 48 hours away from the kickoff of the Florida Gators 2nd attempt at a college football national championship in 3 years, and I just read a story from last week where the CEO of Procter and Gamble, A. G. Lafley, proved that deep down, he's a Gator fan.In an analyst call on Dec. 22nd, a question was directed to Mr. Lafley about the succession plan for his role if/when he decides to retireGatorchuckiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721319751615867035noreply@blogger.com0