1. Try to stay in the middle of the air.
2. Do not go near the edges of it.
3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.

According to NASA.
Thanks to tnh.

The Oxfam Bookshop on Parliament St is having a table quiz on January 27th at 8pm in the Teachers Club on Parnell Square. A reliable source tells me that "There will be prizes and questions to suit all tastes on the night, and the usual cut-throat ambience you only get at a table quiz." Tables cost €30 and you can have a maximum of five people per table.

Well, I can't do the alphabet meme going around the Dublin folks due to not having a bra size. So instead I'll do Farah Mendlesohn's survey of what SF I read as a child, following on from coalescent here, papersky here, and yhlee here.

( Children's SF survey )