Thursday, March 27, 2008

There are several ways that I could furnish you with a copy of the afore mentioned film(s) take your pick

1. Wait till my return from the University of Wealthy Ontarians (April 25ish)
2. Mail you a copy of the film via Canada Post
3. Set up a FTP server on my spare Linux box from which you could download it (the fun way)

please choose the option of least objections and respond at your leisure via the comment section of this post or email

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