Word: sheas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...NASDAQ crash may have left New York City's Silicon Alley a boulevard of broken dreams, but William O'Shea, 24, is one dotcom entrepreneur who hasn't been discouraged. O'Shea and two friends came up with the idea for their new company, RedFilter, last year in his Brooklyn apartment. O'Shea calls it "a remote control for the Internet": go to RedFilter's website, enter your age, pick the subjects you're interested in, and RedFilter spits back a series of sites custom-picked for your tastes. RedFilter's survival secret: it sells its filter technology to other...
...think 24 is the best age to be running your own company, when you have the stamina," says O'Shea, who usually works 13 hours a day. "Maybe when I'm 40 I'll get a chance to rest." A native of the New Jersey suburbs who majored in social studies at Wesleyan University, he was inspired by his father, a florist who "worked seven days a week until I was 15." This is O'Shea's first gig as a businessman; he still speaks like the cautious, probing technology journalist he once was. Maybe that...
...should be a Mets fan. I identify with their culture. I appreciate how deep into the Bachman-Turner Overdrive canon the Shea Stadium deejay can dig. I have bitten my palm, Squiggy-style, over the throngs of big-haired women who have the Mets logo airbrushed on their nails. And I get pumped up when Hawaiian-born Benny Agbayani comes to bat and the scoreboard flashes, without any offense intended, HAWAIIAN PUNCH...
Because believe me, Piazza has a little treat prepared for Roger Clemens. Just pray that he starts at Shea...
...much do Mets fans really know about this year's National League champs? Mike Bordick is lucky to have a temp job, filling in at shortstop until Rey Ordonez is fully healed. Timo Perez first set foot in Shea Stadium less than two months ago. Rick Reed, who won 11 games for the Mets this season, is booed every time he gives up a run at Shea Stadium...