Lotus Geek :: Lotus Notes Sighting: CSI's Grissom uses Lotus Notes!

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I was catching up on my DVRed shows, and my wife and I were watching CSI (Season 8, Episode 12 - Grissom's Divine Comedy, which originally aired on 03 APR 08). Well, right at the beginning, just after the show's intro credits, CSI Willow sends Grissom some photos from her iPhone. Grissom is at home sick, and he opens his laptop, and then his email, and there it is - Lotus Notes! I think it is Notes 7.x, but there is no mistaking that it is Notes. Now, when the document is opened it is either greatly modified in design, or they faked it (which is more likely) - but there's no doubt that Notes is the client.

Here's a screen capture to show you what I saw:

CSI Notes Sighting

CSI's Grissom proves again how smart he is - he uses Lotus Notes! (Screenshot courtesy of Karl-Henry Martinsson)

I screen captured that from a different site than CBS's video site because I couldn't get it to play from there. I found the episode at show-links.tv.

I know I shouldn't get so excited about Notes sightings, but I must admit I still do - especially in popular shows like CSI. It just warms my heart

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Rock

Comments

1 - Thanks for sharing! I was just elated to see that.. Sent links to all of my buddies..

Posted by Betsy Thiede At 12:37:33 PM On 04/22/2008 | - Website - |

2 - lol... cool!

Posted by Duffbert At 06:58:04 PM On 04/22/2008 | - Website - |

3 - That is just soooooo cool! Emoticon

Posted by Marjan At 11:04:02 PM On 04/23/2008 | - Website - |

4 - My favorite show using my favorite software. Doesn't get much better than that!!!

Posted by Wayne MacKirdy At 01:05:46 AM On 04/24/2008 | - Website - |

5 - I echo Wayne.
Go Grissom !
RoB

Posted by Roberto Boccadoro At 05:02:44 AM On 04/24/2008 | - Website - |

6 - I found the episode, and when you look closely, you notice that he only got one folder, "Travel" (with one unread), and 93 unread in his inbox.
They also have Cathrine's address as Cathrine.Willows@lvpd.csi.com while all other visible addresses are at obvious made-up domains (Wndr110.com and mach258.com).
I made a screenshot with a little bit higher resolution, you can see it here: { Link }

Posted by Karl-Henry Martinsson At 08:10:31 AM On 04/24/2008 | - Website - |

7 - Good find, Rocky. I posted to Iris Office Notes. :)

Chris

Posted by Chris Reckling At 01:08:25 PM On 04/26/2008 | - Website - |

8 - If you want another random sighting of Lotus Notes, Hideo Kojima, the creator of the Metal Gear Solid games uses it (as does Konami the company that makes the games).

{ Link }

The analogies between his games being technically brilliant and yet obscure and slightly illogical at times drawing a parallel to Notes are amusing...

Posted by Daniel At 06:11:23 PM On 04/28/2008 | - Website - |