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White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack
Tommy Christopher, who writes for mediate.com, has reporting in his blood, so much so that he livetweeted every part of his recent heart attack. "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" and "This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar. Still hurts even after the morphine," were among his updates as he was rushed to the hospital. Christopher is now in stable condition after recovering from emergency surgery.
You must have missed the part where it said "Idle".
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
Ironically, I'd say you care. I can't understand why you'd take the time to post a comment otherwise.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
This one time, I tweeted that I ate a sandwich. I tweeted about every bite, described the taste and texture. Everyone cared a lot about that series of tweets, and waited with extreme anticipation as I made it to the last bite. I'm thinking about doing a similar series of tweets, describing the sandwich the next day as it leaves my body. It seems like shitty tweets get a lot of attention...
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
So, I guess it gave him something to do.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I can't wait to see the new extreme sports that come out of this. My mind races. Bungie Tweeting, sky tweeting, base jump tweeting, etc. And for that matter, it's probably only a matter of time before someone tweets there own death ("going to the light #lifeafterdeath, pray for me @joan @Derrick @slashdot") if it hasn't happened yet.
His heart?
Yeah it would have been pretty idle during a heart attack.
Oh wait you meant Slashdot category...
Health care is a moral issue. All civilized societies take care of even their least fortunate members. I do not want to be a part of a society that callously lets people die in the streets. If you aren't willing to help, you should not get the benefits of being a member of society.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
And he posted it via Twitvid.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh!
The Tweet reads, "Here may be found the last Tweet of Tommy Christopher. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find me in the Hospital of Aaauuuggghhh... "
What?
He must have died while tweeting it.
Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to tweet 'Aaaauuuggghhhh'. He'd just say it.
. . . etc . . .
What I don't understand, is why the hospital staff lets someone with a serious medical condition tweet . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I think you're missing the point. The OP doesn't care about this subject in particular, he cares about slashdot not sucking more than necessary.
but the real geek will figure out how to fit an ekg into 140 bytes
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
quite wrong in a heart attack one or more of the three coronary arteries is blocked by a blood clot. the oxygenated blood supplied by these arteries keeps the heart alive without it after 20 -30 minutes the heart muscle begins to die and eventually the heart is unable to supply oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. heart attacks are not as quick as most people think and its a 2 stage process.
incidentally morphine is less about pain and more about removing the fear.
Asprin is a good thing to take if you have a heart attack. Its probably a good thing to take regularly if your diabetic since thats going to increase your risk of a heart attack.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
The last time that I checked, all hospitals want you to turn off your phone.
I know that the chances of a phone screwing up the EMI shielded medical equipment are right up there with a phone crashing an airliner, but I always figured it was a CYA policy to prevent some ambulance-chaser from trying to argue the point.
Seems like a pretty lax hospital that will let you text away on your phone as they are performing tests & procedures.
I think you're missing the point. The OP doesn't care about this subject in particular, he cares about slashdot not sucking more than necessary.
I believe that is the whole reason Idle exists, for all the stuff that really isn't news per se but is still tangentially related. Twitter gets covered a lot on Slashdot but this article isn't exactly huge news so it got dumped here.
Which brings me back to my original point, the OP clearly cares enough about this article to make his or her opinion on it known. If the AC had specifically mentioned displeasure with Slashdot rather than an article in Idle of all places I'd be inclined to agree with you, but it seems the issue is with this article specifically.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
I suppose I'll be the first person to supply this response:
Please get better Sir!
That's awfully tragic, too bad you can't multi-tweet to 911 at the same time!
Wish you the best!
You are a hip celebrity & are having suicidal thoughts. Do you
1) Call 911
2) Call a friend
3) call suicide prevention hotline
4) tweet about it
If you chose 4, you are probably faking it so you can get on gawker.
It seems like every other day celebrities are reaching for a twitter client than hitting 911. This makes me think there isn't an actual emergency and things are a bit trumped up. "okay blood is coming out".
Recently I met this very nice girl. Well. I'll keep you posted.
Privacy is terrorism.
Now when someone updates their status in the womb or from beyond the grave: then I'll be interested!
I think you're missing the point. The OP doesn't care about this subject in particular, he cares about slashdot not sucking more than necessary.
Perhaps he should take a more constructive approach then, like suggesting that Slashdot implement some sort of filtering system. You know, a way to select if he wants to see "Idle" stories, or even if he wants full summaries of a section or just the headline. I know, it's crazy talk, but it just might be crazy enough to work!
Or maybe he thinks the world actually cares that he doesn't like Idle articles and so feels the need to post about it. Which is kind of funny, considering his complaint.
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When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Worst time to have a heart attack?
During a game of Charades.
No brain, no pain.
I realize that people are using humor to deal with their fears and discomfort over death, but there's no way to make this funny:
December 17, 2009, 12:29 pm
Announcing a Child’s Death on Twitter
By LISA BELKIN
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/tweeting-about-a-childs-death/
40 comments and not a single NO CARRIER jokNOCARRIER
http://xkcd.com/723/
HNNNNNNGGGGG......
This just in on your twitter feed:
I'm in ur moms womb, makin a brother 4 u.
You shouldn't have given him so much attention, now everyone who get heart attacks will start tweeting it!
31 characters, all you'd need to know to schedule an angiogram.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
How would you like those to be your last words?
"Still hurts even after the mor"
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Now that her son has been senselessly killed, maybe Military Mom can appreciate the suffering caused by her husband and the US Military in its holy war against Muslim people of the world. Lots of babies are killed by our soldiers, and not always by accident.
Let her suffer for her sins.
I mean this reminded me of Holy Grail where they're reading that text on some wall where apparently he died while writing it.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
He wouldn't bother to tweet out "Aaargh", he'd just say it. Which is why he really needs voice-to-text on his cell phone.
There is a big difference between mediate.com and mediaite.com...
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http://www.alternativeratreatments.com/eat-to-live.html
http://www.earthsave.org/news/03summer/eat2live.htm
"Chapter seven is perhaps the most powerful chapter of the book. It offers compelling evidence of dietary causes for most of the common health problems faced by Americans. Then Dr. Fuhrman explains how diet can prevent and even reverse heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, chronic headaches, and autoimmune disease. He relates true stories of patients (who gave permission to be named) who have been able to stop their antihypertensive, antianginal, and antidiabetic drugs; patients who have experienced gradual elimination of their chest pain; patients who have been able to stop their use of toxic drugs for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. I was able to review the charts of Dr. Fuhrman's patients and verified that he is accurately presenting these results."
His diet is killing him.
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
...their 140 characters of fame.
I remember the first, exciting days of the internet, when there were all these incredible new possibilities: ftp, that allowed you to fetch files, even 100s of K from the other side of the world, email and usenet that let you communicate in no time with people far away - for free, almost; and then gopher and the web.
And what has it come to now? SPAM, ever more intrusive and idiotic adverts, and even the most inconsequential crap has become the must have of the moment.
What's on your mind?
Ummm, worms mostly.