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White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack

Posted by samzenpus on from the dedication-to-the-job dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Tweet! by DarkIye · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know, a heart attack from the victim's point of view as it happens sounds quite interesting.

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    To prevent this day from getting worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD TH
  2. Re:anyone can make snarky comments by arth1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's even better than that. You only have to measure the five peaks, plus four intervals for each spot. So you don't need 11 sample points -- nine will do. And even better, you already know whether each of them is positive or negative, saving another bit.
    So 81 characters should be plenty. You can probably get down to even less by only recording the differences between one sample and the next.