# Milliron X
The homepage of Thomas A. Christensen II

# My name is Thomas Christensen
I am Milliron X

## What is a “Milliron X”?

It’s a cattle brand, of course! My cattle brand!

The milliron is the bar with a bend in the middle. It does not represent anything physical or textual per se, and is therefore a rather unique element in cattle brands. Millirons are difficult to modify into another brand, and provide a guarantee of authentic ownership.

X is the letter of mystery and mystique. For nerds, it’s the unknown in any algebra problem. Ranchers and cowboys will associate it with big names like the “Bar X” and the “Double X.” In either case, it lends itself to a sense of withholding, prestige, and power.

Together, these two symbols represent the qualities I strive for in each of my works: authenticity, originality, power, depth, and prestige.

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### Assessment of Porcine Rotavirus-associated virome variations in pigs with enteric disease

27 Apr 2022
Tyler Doerksen
Thomas A. Christensen II
Andrea Lu
Lance Noll
Jianfa Bai
Jamie Henningson
Rachel Palinski

Enteric disease is the predominant cause of morbidity and mortality in young mammals including pigs. Viral species involved in porcine enteric disease complex (PEDC) include rotaviruses, coronaviruses, picornaviruses, astroviruses and pestiviruses among others. The virome of three groups of swine samples submitted to the Kansas State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for routine testing were assessed, namely, a Rotavirus A positive (RVA) group, a Rotavirus co-infection (RV) group and a …

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### Kelpie.jl

06 Apr 2022
Thomas A. Christensen II

:dog2: I accidentally built an HTML templating engine in Julia

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### nfdocs-parser

25 Jan 2022
Thomas A. Christensen II

A Sphinx plugin for converting Nextflow docstrings into documentation

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### singularity-builds

15 Nov 2021
Thomas A. Christensen II

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### cowsay-cows

12 Oct 2021
Thomas A. Christensen II

cowfiles in the original spirit of cowsay, except that all of these are actually bovine

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