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by asyncanup 1872 days ago
Books on the bookshelf (top-right) are:

- daemons

- whoami

- traps

- curses

- pwd

- inbox

bags hanging underneath them:

- spawn

- nroff

- dates

- root

a log against the fireplace wall which says "login",

with potion-like bottles saying "uucp"

and the biggest bottle of potion is named "C" (of course),

while an old broken bottle lies on the ground called "B" (of course)

Symbols on the wizard's clothes are all unix symbols:

- $ (default PS1)

- * (glob)

- % (substring)

- > and < (pipe redirection)

Now to the bottom (right to left):

- A jar called "troff"

- A spool called "usr"

- Container called "awk"

- A jar of "oregano"

- Cursive writing on a parchment paper, "shell script"

- A small cup of "tar"

- Another bottle called "diff"

Update: Ah, you said excluding the words! I guess I was too excited to write down what I saw :P

4 comments

The jar between uucp and C has a label that ends with "ke", could this be "make"?
I assume that the letters jfo on the nroff bag refer to joe ossana, the original author of [nt]roff.
It’s not “inbox” but “mbox”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox
The shell represents the Fibonacci sequence.

Double entendre or meta?