The Personal Website of Jeremy Boles

Logbook #canoncat

This little corner of my website is where I collect things from the everyday goings-on in my life. It’s a chronicle, exhibit, and junk-drawer all at once. I have not had a social media profile in quite a few years now, so this part of my website fills a similiar purpose to what those places did for me in years past.

Springfield MO US

Recreating the Canon Cat document interface

Alexander Obenauer on rebuilding the Canon Cat’s document interface. The bit I keep coming back to is from the Cat’s own How-To Guide:

When our designers created the Cat they threw out all the junk that makes computers clunky and held onto the personality and immediacy of a typewriter.