Rudy Rucker, Sr.Interview
Writer, developer, painter, podcaster
Adapted from Rudy Rucker, Sr.'s interview on Uses This, published 4 August 2015. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I use a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard, and I have a trackball on the left and a mouse on the right.
Just last week I got a new one, an X250 with a touch screen, and all solid state memory.
For regular printing I have an HP LaserJet P2055dn, which works great, I love it, except that the printer cartridges cost about $100.
PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II+ 1 other
For printing color prints of my paintings, I have a Canon Pro9500 Mark II, which is a very fussy and demanding machine.
Just recently, however, I got a nice old-school-look camera, it's a Fujifilm X100T - despite the name it's a digital camera.
I have a heavy-duty Canon 5D Mark I that I've been using for about fifteen years.
I have a pocket-sized Sony audio recorder for taping my talks, it's an SX733.
Communication
Productivity
And I've reduced the spacing between lines - in Word, you can tell it to put 1.4 spaces between lines, as opposed to double space, single space, or one and a half space.
Browser
Coding & Development
Design
Very hard to get a good print out of it - I've finally learned to print from Adobe Photoshop, to use the "Photoshop Manages Colors" option, and to use the "Absolute Colorimetric" option.
For visual things I have Adobe CS6 products that I own.
Media
Other
I run Windows 7 on my computers.