Native Foods Blog: Birthdays, Birthdays!! Gotta Love Birthdays!!

By Jerry Mendivil
Native Foods Tribe Member

I have been working for Native Foods for almost 3 months now and was immediately struck by how into astrological signs everyone (well not everyone, but a definite majority) is. I am a Gemini and am writing this the day before my birthday(May 24^th). Tanya as most of you know is also a Gemini and it has been great fun interacting with another Gemini who, can seem to be distracted and all over the board, with too many irons in every fire, but in actuality is hyper focused and accomplishing a great deal. A classic Gemini trait. I have watched her in action and only have one word to describe it—AMAZING. I once told Tanya that the way we bounce off the walls and each other when we are working, all we are missing is the third stooge: Emerson (another Gemini) or Einstein maybe??!!

I have often heard people denounce astrology as hogwash, but I am such a classic Gemini (in as much as I am exactly the person described in almost every book or article I have ever read about Geminis) that I figure there must be something to it. Yes I admit it, I read my horoscope everyday in the Times and lately it has been so dead on that it is scary. Even the negative ones that I tend to ignore somehow end up having some connection to something that happened to me.

Tanya often does second interviews for me and I realized that she was doing something that I never did (but do now!!). She asks everyone their sign. This is awesome. It really can give you a bit of insight into the person you could potentially hire and how to best manage and work with them. I hear this works for choosing a pet too, but that is for another blog.

You probably have heard about the “Birthday Problem”. Wikipedia states that in probability theory, the birthday problem or birthday paradox pertains to the probability that in a set of randomly chosen people some pair of them will have the same birthday. In a group of at least 23 randomly chosen people, there is more than 50% probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. For 57 or more people, the probability is more than 99%, and it reaches 100% when, ignoring leap years, the number of people reaches 366 .

I witnessed this paradox first hand today. I was at the ” Pupperatzi “ fundraiser for the new Palm
Springs Animal Shelter. It was winding down and there were maybe 25 to 30 people max present. A woman walked by and Tanya stopped her and introduced her as Margaret and told me she was also a Gemini. I told her it was always nice to meet a fellow Gemini and that my birthday was the following day, the 24^th. You guessed it, her birthday is the 24^th also!! Don’t ya love it when problems and paradoxes actually work out and these “theories” may really have some basis?