Mia Eaton

How to do a barrel roll IRL

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:34:00 -0400

Thanks to an engineer at Google you can type “do a barrel roll” into search, and it will roll your browser view around and around. I didn’t even know this was a meme until today.

My dad’s a pilot and a different sort of engineer, so I sent him an email about the Google trick, and this is what he wrote back:

The barrel roll was my favorite aerobatic maneuver when I was a student flying T-28s. It is particularly challenging in a propeller airplane because you have to coordinate all the controls and change power as you go through it. It goes something like this: Start straight and level at 8000 ft. 220 knots. Start a rolling turn to the right adding a little power, a little forward stick to keep the nose on track, a little rudder to keep the ball in the center, at 45 degrees of turn you should be at 45 degrees angle of bank, continuing, at 90 degrees of turn your should be at 90 degrees angle of bank, at 135 degrees of turn you should be at 135 degrees angle of roll etc until you are back on your original course and airspeed.

Love,
Dad

Accidental Happy Face from condensation on my glass. Dedicated...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:53:05 -0400

Accidental Happy Face from condensation on my glass. Dedicated to Steve Jobs. (Taken with instagram)

Aww. Snap. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:44:44 -0400

Aww. Snap. (Taken with instagram)

littlegreybook: “She must find a boat and sail in it. No...

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:52:19 -0400

littlegreybook:

“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”
— Jeanette Winterson

ami with an i: It Depends

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:13:35 -0400

ami with an i: It Depends :

amiwithani:

Because I am a giant publishing nerd who enjoys tempests in teapots, last week was basically off the scale in terms of excitement. The New York Times weighed in on whether or not bookstores should be charging for author events, launching a thousand blog freakouts about whether this is elitist…

slaughterhouse90210: “No adequately loved woman kept her hair...

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:45:55 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“No adequately loved woman kept her hair in that smooth helmet of shining, artificial blondness. Adored well-fucked women allowed their hair to be mussed, to tousle and even curl a bit.”

—Kate Christensen, The Astral

ELO - Don’t Bring Me Down Live 1986 Stereo Remaster (by...

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:01:20 -0400

ELO - Don’t Bring Me Down Live 1986 Stereo Remaster (by movejefflynnelo)

The wonderful guys at Out of Print Tees sent me their seriously...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:22:00 -0400

The wonderful guys at Out of Print Tees sent me their seriously gorgeous Great Gatsby shirt. In their honor I dug up and scanned the paper I wrote in high school, written when I’d been seventeen years old for all of a day.

Apparently I knew all about the motivations and inevitabilities of Gatsby’s poor choices in love.

What I really love are my teacher’s comments in red, and the points taken off for my lazy, hasty spelling mistakes. Clearly I was in such a heady rush to conclude my essay I couldn’t be bothered to care.

For a more legible view of the pages (read my essay! I was so adorable!) check out my mlkshk (scroll to the bottom of the page).

LOL via @zeldman on Twitter. apartness: Dell 6300 _ 1963 _...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:11:32 -0400

LOL via @zeldman on Twitter.

apartness:

Dell 6300 _ 1963 _ Robert McGinnis + Backcover by uk vintage on Flickr.

1963; Never kill a Client by Brett Halliday. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

ill iterate: Dear BEA Publishers

Fri, 20 May 2011 16:18:21 -0400

ill iterate: Dear BEA Publishers:

iamilliterate:

It used to be all you needed to get published was rohypnol, a turkey baster and ten minutes with Sonny Mehta. Today, a book’s marketing gimmick is developed so far in advance of the actual book you can actually get a deal with just a mockup of its eventual hashtag.

So let me cut to the chase….

getoutoftherecat: get out of there cat. you cannot hide in that...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:26:20 -0400

getoutoftherecat:

get out of there cat. you cannot hide in that box. just because i cannot see your face does not mean i cannot see you. you are not fooling anyone with your game cat.

Beach hair. (Taken with Instagram at Hollywood Historic Hotel)

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:07:51 -0400

Beach hair. (Taken with Instagram at Hollywood Historic Hotel)

Venice Beach (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:22:49 -0400

Venice Beach (Taken with instagram)

View from the Historic Hollywood Hotel (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:20:23 -0400

View from the Historic Hollywood Hotel (Taken with instagram)

She Was Wearing Eyeliner

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:25:00 -0400

Last week I asked the Twitter and the Facebook to recommend a black eyeliner that doesn’t make you look like you’ve just rescued a kitten from a storm drain. This is what they said.

Juliet Ulman (@papertyger), “Use Urban Decay Primer Potion and then Mac Fluidline. Fluidline ‘Blitz & Glitz’ is AWESOME, & I am the smudgiest smudger who ever smudged. Primer Potion is MAGICAL & Fluidline is AMAZING, & the combo is a perfect unicorn marriage that will last through a mosh pit. I recommend L’Oreal’s Double Extend (beauty tubes?) tubing mascara for non-smudgy drugstore mascara. #rockshowtested”
Patric King (@patricking), “MAC liquid eyeliner, hands down. only goes away when you yell at it long enough to make it feel bad about hanging around.”
Yvonne Garrett (@yvonnePRB), “Avon’s Big Color Eye Pencil. it’s $7. it works. it lasts. it’s cruelty-free.”
Lauren Hess, “I like Lancôme. It’s pricey, but will last forever.”
Shawnna Thompson-Essl, “Makeup Forever is has a great liner. It runs about $17.”

Fabulous.

Eyeliner? I put that on yesterday.

nerduo: 3anuts. dwineman: Peanuts cartoons with their fourth...

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:40:21 -0400

nerduo:

3anuts.

dwineman:

Peanuts cartoons with their fourth panels removed become Sartrean explorations of dread and malaise. (See also: Garfield Minus Garfield.)

(via Terry Cavanagh)

"A purely private, personal memoir would not interest me much; it was the overlapping between my..."

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:38:56 -0400

“A purely private, personal memoir would not interest me much; it was the overlapping between my experience and others that galvanized the writing.”

- Paris Review – Joyce Carol Oates on ‘A Widow’s Story’, Miranda Popkey

Love JCO. This interview is great.

(via thenewchrissy)

Gluing Satan’s head back on. (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:07:09 -0400

Gluing Satan’s head back on. (Taken with instagram)

Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: The best journalism-job want ad ever ever.

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:57:29 -0400

Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: The best journalism-job want ad ever ever.:

motherjones:

You should, like, strongly consider applying to work for this guy:

We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and writing stellar investigative pieces that provoke change….

Taken with instagram

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:06:55 -0400

Taken with instagram