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.
Who am I?
I am
- 🧬 A bioinformatician (by profession)
- 📐 An engineer (by education)
- 🐂 A rancher (by lifestyle)
- 🖥️ A techie (self-taught)
- 🎥 And a filmmaker (at heart)
I’ve got a soft spot for Brown Swiss dairy cows (just in case you couldn’t tell by the pictures), and am sometimes called “one of those crazy, Wyoming dairy cow people.” I love anything to do with cattle or technology, but especially anything to do with both of them.
<abbr title=“Born again, fundamentalist, dispensationalist, King James Bible-believing, independent Baptist” >Christian, American, Convervative, Pro-gun, Heterosexual - any questions?
Where am I?
I am a Wyomingite sojurning in Kansas. That ought to lead to some interesting stories.
Around the web you can find me at (in order of subjective importance)
- GitHub: @MillironX
- ORDiD: 0000-0003-1219-9320
- GitLab: @MillironX
- Vimeo: Thomas Christensen II
- StackExchange: Milliron X
- Steam: MillironX
This list is intended to verify my identity on other sites. Please do not use it as fodder to try and “follow” me on each of these platforms. I stand with RMS:
Facebook is a bad place for a person to be. When people find us on Facebook, we lead them away from Facebook and then talk with them elsewhere.
Richard Stallman in If you feel your organization needs a ‘presence’ in Facebook
I typically don’t respond to inquiries made on these platforms. Please use my contact form, instead.
I have spent too long in school and not enough time in the middle of nowhere – Baxter Black, DVM During my time in academia, I have amassed a few notable accomplishments. Of course, as the old saying goes, “if it isn’t published, then it never happened,” so here is a list of everything that actually happened. Several of these articles are also available on my Google Scholar page, but this is the complete list. Read more »
I do occasionally build websites for myself and other people. Here is a list of websites I have contributed code to directly, in a vain attempt to gain each of them some search engine cred. Read more »
The culmination of all art forms is that of film. A good film must have the plot and language of a good novel, characters as bold and stunning as sculpture, a rhythm as driving and delicate as poetry, frame compositions more stellar that those of photography, and music that speaks to the souls of both the characters on screen and the viewers off. But I digress. Most of my forays into the world of film are immortalized on my Peertube channel, but I decided to share a few highlights here. Read more »