I so rock!

Spent almost an hour this morning trying to track down a thesis. Nothing under the author's name (which was a common one and I didn't have his first initial). No list of theses-for-that-year on the school's website. Only one reference to the topic at all, when the funding grant was given to his advisor. No CV for the advisor.

Finally wrote to advisor, asked if I had the citation correct, and could he direct me to the dept of the university that sells theses and dissertations.

The advisor wrote back with an attached pdf copy of the thesis, for free! (And yes, the citation was wrong, both title and year. Gotta love engineers.)