Doodads

Sometimes you just make gadgets and whatsits for the hell of it. We are no strangers to whimsy and have posted a pair of our little doodads for your enjoyment. The first is an internet game, the Acronomicon. The second is a rather dry tide calculator for Yaquina Bay, OR.

Acronomicon

The Acronomicon is our new AJAX powered game, hosted right here at The Third Olive. The Acronomicon is an amusing word game wherein you select a pre-determined (but random) sequence of letters, and you have to think of a phrase or sentence for which the letters could be an acronym. You are in competition with other users and everyone votes on their favorites.

Please note: the Acronomicon is still in beta testing and is not compatible with older browsers since it makes extensive use of javascript.

Yaquina Bay Tide Prediction Program

This is a windows only program which can predict tide heights for Yaquina Bay, OR for pretty much any time of the year. It's main utility was in a project we worked on a long time ago which involved statistical analysis of the correlations between tide heights and fishing bycatch rates. Since tide prediction algorithms are interesting devices anyway, we thought we'd post the program on the site in case anyone wants to play around with it. Please note that we are no longer supporting this program.

Download the Yaquina Bay Tide Prediction Program.