Outline an attractive future

I thought this might be of more interest to readers who *don't* hang around James's LJ; I feel readily able to imagine a nice future but hard put to making it interestingly distinguished from James' Nightmarish Future (if I explained it to you now, it'd defeat the point of this, wouldn't it?) or various SF settings I mentioned (Culture, THS).

Plus I should go to bed; the hotel cleaning staff gets annoyed when I sleep in.

serendipity on creepiness

What's really odd about the internet problems is that when LJ can't fully load when I make a post, it defaults to GMT or EST (not sure which) vs. Japan time, which I guess is coming from the time on my laptop.

Anyway, speaking of creepy Japanese porn, I just saw (via a comment on James's thread about the future, hence the serendipity) this 2005 MacLean's article on pedophiles and their patterns. Supposedly an expanded view of them has few really common traits; one of them is interest in Star Wars or Trek, usually Trek. Only half of men who've abused have an actual preference for children. Of those with a preference, 30% were left-handed (normal is 10%), lots have childhood head injuries and below normal IQ. "Just" one-sixth report abuse themselves, though 2/3 of those who prey exclusively on young boys. Of particular relevance is that the link between viewing child porn and molesting actual children seems weak at best; as availability on the Internet has risen, sex crime reports have dropped. Kind of like violent video games and real violence.

Friday: zoo, Spirited Away, mercury poisoning

I hadn't had sushi since Tuesday! I fixed that, back to Sushizanmai for bintoro don, plus tamago and salmon on the side. No jelly dessert, though. Then off to Ueno Park, which I've had my eye on for a while. There's tons to do there -- at least three different museums, though I don't need to go to Japan to see Western art (then again, I live in Bloomington, maybe I do) but I'd found THE ZOO. So I went there.

( Death by 1000 LJ cuts )