Didn't sound like you had a good time redoing your thesis...did you alter your thesis to have it include your thoughts on Gateway's Tech Support Guy and what you wanted to do to him?
Your story made me think of a guy that Team Sergeant may remember that he once worked with (Les J.). Les hated to type so much he had me build him a new computer (1999 or so timeframe) that could run a voice recording program. Long story short was that he used the program to write his entire thesis with only having to "train" the software twice...1st go around he liked to listen to the TV and other background noises and then learned that the program tried to match his accent with every TV actor's accent too
2nd go around "training" the program he finished "typing" the thesis in record time.