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In response to many requests, I’m starting a special open thread for New Year’s Day 2020. I may add a cute picture later, but for now let’s get this started.

Readers may now add italics, boldface, and other formatting to comments with a simple system called Markdown. Give it a try!

Some commenters have noted strange behavior today. This may be related to some tinkering I was doing, so I’m undoing some of what I did and commenting should return to normal. Sorry!