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<!doctype html><html class=no-js lang=en><head><meta name=generator content="Hugo 0.111.3"><meta charset=utf-8><meta http-equiv=x-ua-compatible content="ie=edge"><meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><meta name=description content="The homepage of Thomas A. Christensen II"><title>Home - MillironX</title><link href="/styles/mix-twbs.min.css" rel=stylesheet></head><body><div class=container-fluid><div class="row wrapper min-vh-100 flex-column flex-sm-row"><aside class="col-12 col-md-3 p-0 bg-dark flex-shrink-1"><nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md navbar-dark bg-dark align-items-start flex-md-column flex-row"><div class=container-fluid><a class="navbar-brand d-block d-md-none" href=#><object class="d-inline-block align-text-top" width=80 height=24 style=filter:invert(100%) data=/graphics/millironx.svg>
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<span class="font-small-caps font-serif">Milliron X</span></a>
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  Milliron X</h1></header></div><div class=blurred-container><div class=motto><h1 id=motto><small>My name is Thomas Christensen</small><br>I am Milliron X</h1></div><div class=img-src style=background-image:url(/images/charolette.jpg)></div><div class="img-src blur" style=background-image:url(/images/charolette_hu3443e2e07cb5f8d9bccf60b0005a6a7f_350799_filter_6742909828560968691.jpg)></div></div><br><section class="container-fluid list-main"><div class="container px-5"><h2>What is a "Milliron X"?</h2><h3>It's a
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<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_branding>cattle brand</a>,
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of course! My cattle brand!</h3><p>The <dfn>milliron</dfn> is the bar with a bend in the middle. It does not
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represent anything physical or textual <i>per se</i>, and is therefore a
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rather unique element in cattle brands. Millirons are difficult to modify into
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another brand, and provide a guarantee of authentic ownership.</p><p><dfn>X</dfn> is the letter of mystery and mystique. For nerds, it's the
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unknown in any algebra problem. Ranchers and cowboys will associate it with
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big names like the "Bar X" and the "Double X." In either case, it lends itself
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to a sense of withholding, prestige, and power.</p><p>Together, these two symbols represent the qualities I strive for in each of my
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works: authenticity, originality, power, depth, and prestige.</p><h2>Who am I?</h2><figure class="figure float-md-end w-md-50 p-3"><img class="figure-img img img-fluid" src=/me-and-lady_hu7060dc4dab919d51d7854024d27698e6_13657210_768x0_resize_q75_box.jpg width=768 height=513><figcaption class=figure-caption><small>Image courtesy <a href=https://www.guymccutcheon.com/>Guy McCutcheon Photography</a></small></figcaption></figure><p>I am</p><ul><li>🧬 A bioinformatician (by profession)</li><li>📐 An engineer (by education)</li><li>🐂 A rancher (by lifestyle)</li><li>🖥️ A techie (self-taught)</li><li>🎥 And a filmmaker (at heart)</li></ul><p>I've got a soft spot for Brown Swiss dairy cows (just in case you couldn't
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tell by the pictures), and am sometimes called "one of those crazy, Wyoming
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dairy cow people." I love anything to do with cattle or technology, but
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especially anything to do with both of them.</p><p><em><abbr title="Born again, fundamentalist, dispensationalist, King James Bible-believing, independent Baptist">Christian</abbr>, American, Convervative, Pro-gun, Heterosexual - any questions?</em></p><h2>Where am I?</h2><figure class="figure float-md-start w-md-50 p-3"><img class="figure-img img img-fluid" src=/wy-in-ks_hudc7807e3bcd929cdfa1bf6a15cff914e_370962_768x0_resize_box_3.png width=768 height=499></figure><p>I am a Wyomingite sojurning in Kansas. That ought to lead to some interesting
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stories.</p>Around the web you can find me at (in order of subjective importance)<ul class="float-md-end w-md-50"><li><i class="fab fa-fw fa-github"></i> GitHub:
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<a href=https://github.com/MillironX>@MillironX</a></li><li><i class="fab fa-fw fa-orcid"></i>
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ORCiD:
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<a href=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1219-9320>0000-0003-1219-9320</a></li><li><i class="fab fa-fw fa-gitlab"></i>
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GitLab: <a href=https://gitlab.com/MillironX>@MillironX</a></li><li><i class="fab fa-fw fa-vimeo"></i>
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Vimeo: <a href=https://vimeo.com/tchristensenii>Thomas Christensen II</a></li><li><i class="fab fa-fw fa-stack-overflow"></i>
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Stack Exchange:
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<a href=https://stackexchange.com/users/4863541/milliron-x>Milliron X</a></li><li><i class="fab fa-fw fa-steam"></i>
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Steam: <a href=https://steamcommunity.com/id/millironx>MillironX</a></li><li><i class="fab fa-fw fa-discord"></i>
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Discord:
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<a href=https://discord.com/users/484492414837587978>@MillironX</a></li></ul><div style=clear:both></div><div class="card border-warning m-3"><div class=card-body><p class=card-text>This list is intended to verify my identity on other sites. Please do
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<em>not</em> use it as fodder to try and "follow" me on each of these
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platforms. I stand with RMS:</p><figure><blockquote class=blockquote><p>Facebook is a bad place for a person to be. When people find us on
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Facebook, we lead them away from Facebook and then talk with them
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elsewhere.</p></blockquote><figcaption class=blockquote-footer>Richard Stallman in
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<cite><a href=https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html>If you feel your organization needs a 'presence' in Facebook</a></cite></figcaption></figure><p class=card-text>I typically don't respond to inqueries made on these platforms. Please use
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<a href=/contact>my contact form</a>, instead.</p></div></div></div><div class=row data-masonry='{"percentPosition": true}'><div class="col-xl-6 mb-4"><div class=card><div class=category-button></div><div class=card-body><div class="thumb-icon-wrapper mb-3"><span class="badge thumb-icon-badge rounded-pill bg-primary py-4 px-5"><i class="fa-fw fad fa-university"></i></span></div><a href=/academia/><h3 class=card-title>Academic Publications and Presentations</h3></a><div>23 Oct 2023</div><p class=card-text>I have spent too long in school and not enough time in the middle of nowhere
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– Baxter Black, DVM
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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.
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<strong><small><a href=/academia/>Read more »</a></small></strong></p></div><div class=card-footer></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-6 mb-4"><div class=card><div class=category-button></div><div class=card-body><div class="thumb-icon-wrapper mb-3"><span class="badge thumb-icon-badge rounded-pill bg-primary py-4 px-5"><i class="fa-fw fad fa-file-signature"></i></span></div><a href=/contact/><h3 class=card-title>Contact Me</h3></a><div>01 Jul 2023</div><p class=card-text>Contact Me Name Email Phone number Category I'm hiring for artificial insemination Something else Subject Message Cancel Submit
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<strong><small><a href=/contact/>Read more »</a></small></strong></p></div><div class=card-footer></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-6 mb-4"><div class=card><div class=category-button></div><div class=card-body><div class="thumb-icon-wrapper mb-3"><span class="badge thumb-icon-badge rounded-pill bg-primary py-4 px-5"><i class="fa-fw fax fa-bull-sperm"></i></span></div><a href=/ai/><h3 class=card-title>Artificial Insemination</h3></a><div>31 Dec 2022</div><p class=card-text>Cattle artificial insemination services I am licensed in the Great State of Wyoming as a food animal artificial insemination technician. I only offer AI services for cows, even though legally I could AI cows, goats, and sheep. My services are most readily available in the southeast Wyoming area or the Flint Hills of Kansas depending on the time of year. Rate schedule Insemination (per cow) $25.00 5 cow minimum charge Milage (per mile, one-way) $1.
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<strong><small><a href=/ai/>Read more »</a></small></strong></p></div><div class=card-footer></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-6 mb-4"><div class=card><div class=category-button></div><div class=card-body><div class="thumb-icon-wrapper mb-3"><span class="badge thumb-icon-badge rounded-pill bg-primary py-4 px-5"><i class="fa-fw fad fa-browser"></i></span></div><a href=/websites/><h3 class=card-title>My Websites</h3></a><div>01 Mar 2022</div><p class=card-text>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.
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<strong><small><a href=/websites/>Read more »</a></small></strong></p></div><div class=card-footer></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-6 mb-4"><div class=card><div class=category-button></div><div class=card-body><div class="thumb-icon-wrapper mb-3"><span class="badge thumb-icon-badge rounded-pill bg-primary py-4 px-5"><i class="fa-fw fad fa-video"></i></span></div><a href=/videos/><h3 class=card-title>Videos</h3></a><div>16 Feb 2017</div><p class=card-text>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.
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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.
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acknowledging them all.</p><table class="table table-condensed table-responsive table-striped"><tr><th>Project name</th><th>URL</th><th>License</th></tr><tr><th>Hugo</th><td><a href=https://gohugo.io/>gohugo.io</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/LICENSE>Apache License v2</a></td></tr><tr><th>Node.js</th><td><a href=https://nodejs.org/>nodejs.org</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/HEAD/LICENSE>MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th>Bootstrap 5</th><td><a href=https://getbootstrap.com/>getbootstrap.com</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/LICENSE>MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th>Bootswatch Lux 5</th><td><a href=https://bootswatch.com/lux/>bootswatch.com</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch/blob/v5/LICENSE>MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th>JQuery 3</th><td><a href=https://jquery.com/>jquery.com</a></td><td><a href=https://jquery.org/license>MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th>Font Awesome 6</th><td><a href=https://fontawesome.com/>fontawesome.com</a></td><td><a href=https://fontawesome.com/license/>Font Awesome Pro License</a></td></tr><tr><th>Get S*** Done Toolkit</th><td><a href=https://www.creative-tim.com/product/get-shit-done-kit>creative-tim.com</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/timcreative/freebies/blob/master/LICENSE.md>MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th>FitText</th><td><a href=http://fittextjs.com/>fittextjs.com</a></td><td><a href=http://www.wtfpl.net/>WTFPL License</a></td></tr><tr><th>jQuery Mask Plugin</th><td><a href=https://igorescobar.github.io/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/>igorescobar.github.io</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/igorescobar/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/blob/master/LICENSE>MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th>PostCSS</th><td><a href=https://postcss.org/>postcss.com</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/LICENSE>MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th>PurgeCSS</th><td><a href=https://purgecss.com/>purgecss.com</a></td><td><a href=https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss/blob/main/LICENSE>MIT License</a></td></tr></table></div><div class="tab-pane fade p-3" id=privacy role=tabpanel><p>I take privacy very seriously. That said, I do need
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