The Last Thing You Read Was

Actually, I'm beating up a nerd and having him write what I tell him. And the most brilliant part is that I don't even know how to read.

(please save me)

Yes, that's why I clicked something online. But within the past week I've read something in all of the categories mentioned except the non-fiction book and it's just a coincidence that I didn't do that.

Technically, the last phrase I read before voting was "Print is Dead". So, I voted for that.

Wrong. I'm no longer reading slashdot: I'm seeing it.

BTW: what did think of the Cowboy Neal in the red dress?... He, uhm, well he doesn't talk very much, but, but if you'd like to meet him, I can arrange a much more personalized meeting.

That was my thought. Or maybe you responded to the poll without reading anything. Maybe you're illiterate and just like clicking on buttons. Or maybe you have your browser configured to turn off all text and you just select poll answers blindly.

Once I read all the poll options, the last thing I had read was "Print is Dead".

No, this was a very sensible poll. We all know that the large majority of the people here never read the articles, so I guess that we all want to know what they did read (if anything) before responding.

It's either that, or all those comments saying RTFA are meant to be humorous. :-)

Well, considering how many people enjoy books, and considering how almost all people enjoy fictional stories in some form, and therefore should be able to at least understand how some may enjoy written fiction, there is only one conclusion: very few men are sane..

You should make a spoof of those commercials, showing a bunch of hot chicks sitting around you at the table while you look up from a manual and say that.

WTF are you doing on Slashdot then?

I may not always read, but when I do, I read the label of a Dos Equis.

Coroner 1: Cause of death, patient died from trying to read the discworld series.
Coroner 2: What, that's like the 5th this month.
Coroner 1: When will they learn.

If I'd been thinking I would have made my choice, put the mouse over the submit button, read something else, and then clicked the mouse without looking at the screen.

Or the mouse logo.

I read the poll, clicked an option, and tabbed down to the submit button, then read a book, blindfolded myself, and hit enter by feel, you insensitive clod!

That's obviously what everyone else did too.

Thank God for that clarification! With the additional information you provided about your vote, we can now make a more informed analysis of the poll results. You have helped the future poll interpretations be less skewed, good sir. This sentence will now simply refer to itself as simply being more facetiously grandiose praise because the author has run out of clever phrases and is hoping this counts.

Phrasing a poll question on a nerd site that so easily falls to the most cursory of pedantic analyses (i.e., a glance), must, in my estimation, either be intentional, or is naïvely presumptive about some nerds' abilities to not subconscious evaluate the logic of whatever questions/statements may be before them.

If the pollster wanted the extant skew to occur—well, congratulations—mission accomplished. If not, then I must conclude that the poll's author fucked up—not the thousands of respondents who gave answered the question in the most honest, factually correct manner available. Lord Lode has pointed out another piece of damning evidence [slashdot.org] that further demonstrates the appalling lack of rigor that went into the development of this week's Slashdot poll. :o)

It's not obvious to me. I suppose it's what another commenter said, The latest [non-trivial] thing you read, but still, do I include doxygen documentation for the code I'm working on? News articles? Well, for me it's easy as I'd have to use a complex definition to exclude all the online stuff and include the scientific papers I printed out or the novel I read at night

I can look you in the eye and tell you it's partly true... and partly false.

Only 50? Hah! Try Fifty-Thousand Shades Of Grey [amazon.co.uk].

It's not true. But then, I am not a woman.

Or company. I'm reading "The Russian Court at Sea" - about the embarkation and exodus of the surviving Romanovs from Yalta (the Crimea) in 1918/1919. As Rasputin/(Boney M), said "Oh, those Russians...".

(Damn - what have I done - I've now got that tune in my head).

For the same reasons that you stated about the bathroom, I have for quite some time, and will always subscribe to National Geographic as well as The Smithsonian. My poopin' time just isn't complete without a quick read-through of the latest art/history/nature/humanity article.

I will only fail to renew my subscription when they fail to print.

A slashdot poll. Come on is it a trick question? Its obviously the thing i was reading right before answering the question.

Only one of those is the *last* thing you read...

The polls are quick and dirty constructions -- as the disclaimer states -- mostly in fun with some effort done in earnest; meaning, there is always going to be a lack of clarity in its design, opening it up for discussion. In this case, it's a classic mistake of confusing medium and message. The answer then to your rhetorical question is: The pollster made a mistake. :)

Print vs Pixel
Fictional vs Factual

Books(periodicals(newspapers,magazines(catalogs,directories,manuals,pamphlets,flyers,letters(envelopes, cards))));
Monitors(television,phones,tablets,computers(discs,files,networks(emails,blogs(comments))));
--
Poetry:Prose( ..., drama,humor,fable,poetics,horror,mystery, ... );
Exposition:Narrative(..., essays,journals,documentaries,speeches,biographies,papers, ... );

Or ... something to that effect; ymmv. :)