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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. Tweet! by morari · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

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  2. Hospital visits are boring by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, I guess it gave him something to do.

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  3. Obviously Monty Pythonesque by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 . . . ?

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    1. Re:Obviously Monty Pythonesque by Headrick · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe he was dictating...

  4. anyone can make snarky comments by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    but the real geek will figure out how to fit an ekg into 140 bytes

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    1. Re:anyone can make snarky comments by StikyPad · · Score: 3, Funny

      #define FLATLINE 0x00

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    2. Re:anyone can make snarky comments by arth1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      With a 12-lead EKG, you can have 11 values of +-64 for each lead, which fits in 132 bytes of 7-bit ASCII, leaving 8 bytes for header identifying it as an EKG, plus the horisontal resolution (i.e. time for each measurement).

      To get more data, repeat.

  5. Worst time to have a heart attack? by drainbramage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worst time to have a heart attack?
    During a game of Charades.

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