[date uncertain ...]

i often find the n-category cafe somewhat annoying... perhaps for more than one reason, but overwhelmingly for just one reason... the same reason that i tend to find any other participatory writing forum annoying, namely that it's unfairly stacked against me because the medium of communication is writing rather than talking...

anyway, for this reason i sometimes go for long periods without reading it, and sometimes miss interesting discussions that way... and i seem to have just found one that i missed that looks like it might be interesting... on the langlands program... so i want to make a pretty serious effort to go back and read it and try to understand it pretty soon...

there's also "math overflow"... one of my problems with that... basically just a special case of the already mentioned problem... is that by the time i manage to write up a question in presentable form, it usually requires/causes me to already pretty much figure out the answer...

in principle it ought to be possible to overcome that problem to some extent...