Expedient MEANS

Notes on Film, Art, Writing, Technology and other things by Steve A Furman

  • WALL-E – Film Review

    WALL•E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a friendly and extremely efficient robot that spends his days trying to tidy up a major mess left by the human inhabitants of earth. It seems that the Big-N-Large conglomerate, which owned everything and is the epitome of commercialism, made some mistakes along the way. Earth can no Read more

  • All the World’s a Sage

    Marshall McLuhan’s watershed work The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is obviously the inspiration for this post. I first came across his book in 1967 and was completely blown away. My best friend, Tim, a budding graphic designer and fantasy artist, came running up to my front door waving the book. We launched Read more

  • Forrester Finance Forum 2008 – First of Three

    Great Customer Experience: Easy to Say, Hard to Do. Just returned from the Forrester Research Finance Forum held in New York June 23rd and 24th. Forrester is a research company that does an excellent job at spotting trends, doing deep dive research, and providing companies with helpful insights. I have been a client of Forrester Read more

  • Online Grocery Shopping Evolves

    I absolutely HATE grocery shopping. Let me be a little more specific. It’s not so much the shopping part that I hate. It’s driving there, waiting in the long checkout lines, pushing the cart to the car, driving them home, lugging them into the house, and generally wasting 1-3 hours every week. As a self-proclaimed, Read more

  • Red Cross Using Social Community

    The recent heartbreaking events of the midwest floods have reached unprecedented heights. Anyone that lives in a stricken area or has a friend or loved one there, wants to know as much information as possible about what’s happening on the ground. The American Red Cross has always had a focus on communication, and are now Read more

  • Golf, Tiger and Father’s Day

    The U.S. Open golf tournament and Father’s Day seem to always intersect. Growing up, I used to watch the last day of the tournament with my father on his day. Now it’s my day, and I was gearing up for tomorrow’s BBQ with friends and my family when I decided to flip on the plasma Read more