Kapoor has been thinking about stupidity-specifically, why people choose to believe stupid things-and has come to the conclusion that a great deal of stupidity is voluntary. Voluntary is different from native stupidity or simple ignorance in which one's honestly not bright enough to make a given decision, or makes a bad decision based on a lack of ( Read more... )

Kapoor thought a lot about game design last night and reflected on World in Flames. Even though it's a monster game that requires 4 square meters of playing space for the maps, comes with 1,400 counters in the basic game, and takes 40 to 100 hours to play depending on the optional rules one picks, the 4 rules systems (air, sea, and land movement & ( Read more... )

Kapoor has survived another Armadillocon, this time with mixed results. The panels weren't as helpful as in previous years, but the location was better and the company and room parties better as well ( Read more... )

With surprising alacrity, an agent has already responded to Kapoor. If it takes three days for a letter to reach New York, then Kapoor's query arrived on Friday the 23rd, and the reply (dated Tuesday the 27th) was sent almost immediately ( Read more... )

...and if you know Kapoor, a gal a day is about all he can handle! Anyway, Kapoor has finished the third draft of Gone to Earth and as of today has finished the first batch of queries to agents. He selected nine based on whether they represented authors he knew, what their interests were, and how successful the agents have been. Now he has to wait ( Read more... )

Once again Kapoor goes to the dentist to have his incisors filed down, and once again his insurance company refuses to cover a $130 (€102) preventative treatment. This is why Kapoor supported full-scale healthcare reform and is hugely disappointed that the United States instead got health insurance regulation that slowly kicks in over a four- ( Read more... )

Another A-kon has come and gone, and this year it was pretty much the best evar because a beautiful girl with dark eyes and a rich cocoa complexion called Kapoor hawt. It also helped that there was good anime, good friends, and a good hotel room ( Read more... )

Kapoor's horrible homegrown RPG was, as expected, unplayable from the first draft, so Kapoor has put together a 16-page supplement that may help. Eight pages describe possible character roles (plus tips on character creation); six pages cover miscellaneous missing items, such as a missing skill description, rules for injury that lead to death, ( Read more... )

Last night Kapoor took his novel's new prologue to the critique group, partially disguised as a standalone short story with the meaningless title "Rogue Pol" (an anagram of "prologue") so that no one would be scared off by the possibility that Kapoor might be preparing to make them read the whole novel again ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, Kapoor found a Japanese web page where an artist had drawn cute anime girls based on creatures and entities from the Cthulhu Mythos. While that particular artist has taken down that web page and gone into drawing hardcore hentai, someone else has taken up the burden of finding cuteness in the Mythos ( Read more... )