I think I'm starting to agree with Dirk Gently on the fundamental interconnectedness of everything. I was watching Sanctuary, and it made me look up Nikola Tesla, because I know very little about him. He lived for a while in Colorado Springs, did you know? See also The Prestige about that. Anyhow, he used to feed pigeons, a reference to which I think was made by Terry Pratchett in his character Leonard of Quirm. There was a biography of Tesla, called Prodigal Genius, the Life of Nikola Tesla, written by John J. O'Neill.

I wonder what the J. stands for.

(ETA: Also, the episode that made me research Tesla finishes in Oxford, which is where I am. *g* ETA2: Actually, that was Rome, wasn't it. But still, they talk about Oxford a lot...)

ETA3:kirsty841 has pondered what the J stands for, and been inspired...