Empathy and sympathy are very different, and while neither of them are bad necessarily, empathy is about making an emotional connection with someone, while sympathy is—generally—about finding a silver lining. Both are important, but this animated short really puts a fine point on how they differ.

Judging from his hand position, I suspect he's finished the session, closing his robe and enjoying the yawn he's been DYING to take since the session started.

You don't have to read them all - she's not going to spank you if you skip one.

Ahh, the LifeHacker effect - at this hour (520am Eastern). I'll check back in a few hours.

I throw myself into it - feet first. Some years ago, I worked for a regional retail oil company - the kind where the owner would walk through the floor, chat with people that sort of thing. He and I'd chatted briefly now and then. One day, he walks in with a cardboard box that he drops on my desk. Inside is a cell…

It's annoying and I complain to myself while I do it but I:

But, if you'd or they'd like to take on that responsibility, drop by the shelter AFTER the holiday frenzy is past. There are likely plenty of new friends who'd love to start the new year with a new home.

I just can't accept that — my phone just can't be Lutheran! ;)

Win win!!!!

I know many people treat this very seriously but I just used Google Location History to replay "today" and the minor "impreciseness" of GPS makes it freaking hilarious. My phone was in the computer room last night but it looks like it danced about the apartment all night - including when it ran to the church across…

Ding ding ding (bing bing bing?) we have a winner. I'm up here in snowy Canada.

I tried that and it URL'd itself right back to bing.com. Wonder if it's because I don't have a sign-in?

Forgive me as I've never used Bing but is there some magic way of making that "flight widget" thing appear? I've tried turning AdBlock off and eventually tried the flight shown and continue to simply get a list of links. I tried exactly the same search wording in Google and got ... a little flight widget.

On 2nd reading, I feel the need to clarify - O'Toole was a actor with few peers.

My Favorite Year (1982) - He played "Alan Swann" - an Errol Flynn clone who loved ... LOVED ... a tipple.

I'm a "light" user and GIMP continues to serve me well. Typically, if I can find a tutorial about something in Photoshop, I can work out the GIMP equiv fairly easily.

That should have read "team meetings" and I promise to never, ever, comment from my phone without wearing my freaking glasses. The lead is a very nice person and I cannot picture her throwing raw chicken at under-performers.

I know what you mean. If you change "family" to "team", the test lead I deal with most often uses these in everyone of her team meatings.

One quick comment about infographic resumes: may not be the best approach to an IT job. Our HR dept cooks down the Word/PDF versions of resumes into their text components and stores them in a system that lets people pull up resumes by keyword - while I *think* it'd store a graphic resume, our HR people don't read…

This is Android specific but ... as a Nexus 7 user, I was a little disappointed the KitKat upgrade left us with the old launcher.