Oh my God, the end of the article is absolute gold! What a lovely tradition. I'm going to start offering piggyback rides to everyone I meet. Here's an excerpt o

Oh my God, the end of the article is absolute gold! What a lovely tradition. I'm going to start offering piggyback rides to everyone I meet. Here's an excerpt of Alexia's experiences offering piggyback rides to various notable people: > The Mighty Piggybacker Marvin Minsky Lofty pioneer in artificial intelligence. "Great view! I could almost touch the bottoms of the traffic lights!" __Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie __Creators of Unix. "I looked up to them as an undergrad at Cooper Union. Who would have imagined I'd actually get to meet them, let alone offer piggybacks! And afterward I got to fly with Ken in his plane!" Zvi Galil Dean, School of Engineering, Columbia University. "Very fit. Jogs umpteen miles a day. Carries well." __Penn & Teller __Comedians. "I carried Teller. But Penn (the big one) could not be persuaded that his weight was not an issue." Calton Pu Massalin's PhD adviser. "Excellent piggybacks. Carried me 30 city blocks once! That's my longest piggyback ever from a single person." __Neil Reynolds __Fellow grad student at Columbia. "At 6' 6", 350-plus pounds, the heaviest person I've carried. His rides are spectacular. He hardly notices it when I jump on." __Renate Valencia __Massalin's girlfriend. "Much more than piggyback rides: also in-her-arms carries, over-her-shoulder carries, assorted spins and tosses. She can grab me by my armpits and twirl me round in the air!" __Mort Meyerson __CEO, Perot Systems. "Not only accepted my offer, but did so with much enthusiasm. Restored my faith in humanity." Richard Stallman Founder of the Free Software Foundation. "Impolite shrug; I did not even finish offering the piggyback when it became clear that further conversation would not have been appreciated." __Douglas Adams __Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Unceremoniously ignored an offer of a piggyback, as if I was crazy or something :-)" __Nicholas Negroponte __Director of the MIT Media Lab. "Very politely declined several offers."