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title: Home
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cardImage: charolette
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cardImageDescription: She almost looks like she's in her native country again.
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motto: <small>My name is Thomas Christensen</small><br />I am Milliron X
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description: The homepage of Thomas A. Christensen II
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## What is a "Milliron X"?
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It's a [cattle brand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_branding), of
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course! My cattle brand!
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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 _per se_, and is therefore a rather
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unique element in cattle brands. Millirons are difficult to modify into another
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brand, and provide a guarantee of authentic ownership.
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<dfn>X</dfn> is the letter of mystery and mystique. For nerds, it's the unknown
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in any algebra problem. Ranchers and cowboys will associate it with big names
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like the "Bar X" and the "Double X." In either case, it lends itself to a sense
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of withholding, prestige, and power.
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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.
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## Who am I?
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{{< imgproc me-and-lady Resize "768x" "float-right" >}} Image courtesy
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[Guy McCutcheon Photography](https://www.guymccutcheon.com/) {{< /imgproc >}}
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I am
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- 🧬 A bioinformatician (by profession)
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- 📐 An engineer (by education)
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- 🐂 A rancher (by lifestyle)
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- 🖥️ A techie (self-taught)
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- 🎥 And a filmmaker (at heart)
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I've got a soft spot for Brown Swiss dairy cows (just in case you couldn't tell
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by the pictures), and am sometimes called "one of those crazy, Wyoming dairy cow
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people." I love anything to do with cattle or technology, but especially
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anything to do with both of them.
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_<abbr
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title="Born again, fundamentalist, dispensationalist, King James Bible-believing, independent Baptist"
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>Christian</abbr
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>, American, Convervative, Pro-gun, Heterosexual - any questions?_
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## Where am I?
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{{< imgproc wy-in-ks Resize "768x" "float-left" / >}}
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I am a Wyomingite sojurning in Kansas. That ought to lead to some interesting
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stories.
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Around the web you can find me at (in order of subjective importance)
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- {{< fa fab github yes >}} GitHub: [@MillironX](https://github.com/MillironX)
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- {{< fa fab orcid yes >}} ORDiD:
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[0000-0003-1219-9320](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1219-9320)
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- {{< fa fab gitlab yes >}} GitLab: [@MillironX](https://gitlab.com/MillironX)
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- {{< fa fab vimeo yes >}} Vimeo:
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[Thomas Christensen II](https://vimeo.com/tchristensenii)
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- {{< fa fab stack-overflow yes >}} StackExchange:
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[Milliron X](https://stackexchange.com/users/4863541/milliron-x)
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- {{< fa fab steam yes >}} Steam:
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[MillironX](https://steamcommunity.com/id/millironx)
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This list is intended to verify my identity on other sites. Please do _not_ use
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it as fodder to try and "follow" me on each of these platforms. I stand with
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RMS:
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{{< blockquote "Richard Stallman _in_ [If you feel your organization needs a 'presence' in Facebook](https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html)" >}}
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Facebook is a bad place for a person to be. When people find us on Facebook, we
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lead them away from Facebook and then talk with them elsewhere.
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{{< /blockquote >}}
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I typically don't respond to inquiries made on these platforms. Please use
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[my contact form](/contact), instead.
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