Fuzzy logic?

When Liane was a child, she saw two traffic cops get off their motorbikes and walk towards each other. "They must be booking each other," she quipped.

A story in yesterday's ST (Saturday, Nov 10) had a twist to this storyline. A Certis Cisco cop appeared to have booked a Certis Cisco vehicle which had been parked illegally. But someone went and took a look at the summons ticket and found that it was "blank", ie nothing written on it! It was then explained that the "booking" officer had thought the vehicle was on "official duty". Fuzzy logic? Here's the ST headline:

Take a look at the picture above of the parked vehicle. One can see that it was illegally parked, whether on official duty or not. The picture was taken by the person who had blogged about the incident. The ST story can be read online on its asiaone.com site:

http://business.asiaone.com/Motoring/News/Story/A1Story20121110-382701.html

But the blogger had taken at least one other picture which he posted on his blog. For some reason, I could not access it, but this site below reposted both the blog entry and the other picture which clearly showed how irresponsibly parked the vehicle was:

http://therealsingapore.com/content/ever-seen-wayang-show-performed-our-cisco

I think, if ever anyone wants to cite an example of the power of citizen journalism here in this age of ubiquitous social media, this is one such. I don't know how this story will play out in the next few days, as more online chatter builds up over this issue, but I doubt if it will die down yet. Stay tuned.

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Trying for 11.11.11

This Foxtrot cartoon strip panel in The Sunday Times which I read this morning inspired me to try something during the night-time:

But drats! Not only was the picture fuzzy due to my haste in snapping it (and forgetting to use the macro mode), but the time delay between button-press and shutter-click meant I got 11.11.13 on 11.11.12. Fuzzy logic, sort of. Ah well, there's still 12.12.12 on 12.12.12.

Finally, a bit of "11" maths (and palindromic) trivia :

(2 digits) 11 x 11 = 121
(6 digits) 111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
(9 digits) 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321