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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.
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...
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!
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
Now when someone updates their status in the womb or from beyond the grave: then I'll be interested!
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/
That is bullshit, all sources, for instance, the Bible, estimate human lifespan as being essentially the same as today. The difference was child mortality rates. Most people died before the age of ten, if you know anything about statistics, you will see how that effects the average life expectancy, even though, if you lived past ten you were about a likely to live to seventy five as you are today.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Thanks, the same is true for Third World life expectancies today, but the average prole has no clue how to make sense of the statistics. My in-laws had 13 children, five of whom died before the age of three. If all of the remaining 8 live to be 80 years old that will still be an 'average' life expectancy of 49. The degree of mathematical illiteracy today is depressing.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin