Those pale blue hardcover Unix books are quite excellent, made for this job. Best would be to hide possibly embarrassing, smaller, books in there. Crap du jour

Those pale blue hardcover Unix books are quite excellent, made for this job. Best would be to hide possibly embarrassing, smaller, books in there. Crap du jour "in a nutshell", that sort of stuff. On the outside, you are a gray beard, reading Stevenson and knowing the ins and outs of Unix Networking, TCP/IP, and System Calls, but on the inside, the secret of your actual software career "in a nutshell" is laid bare in secret compartments.