... that in 1993, police officer Bob Geary launched a successful ballot initiative in San Francisco, California to allow him to carry a ventriloquist's dummy on patrol?
... that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?
... that Halloween in the Castro (bus sign pictured), San Francisco's gay village, started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002?
... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Juan Marichal made ten Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants between 1962 and 1973?
... that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz (pictured) studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?

August - October 2008