Can I have an ETA?

Wonder what my marketing firm will think about including this in our next set of brochures.

Dear Vlad,

I am really running on a tight deadline here and as much as I can appreciate that you’re out of town I REALLY need an ETA on <SBS Show, Shockey Monkey, Vladfire>… I am running out of time.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is your ETA. Provided in 4MP resolution just in case you can’t see my ETA guarantee:

So there’s your ETA. Now GFO.

Update: Woops. Did not mean to leave the comments open on this one. But I hear from my secretary in UK that it was well received in EU at least. I think every developer, sysadmin and engineer is constantly put in a role of providing an ETA based on about a billion moving parts and 20 other people not doing their job. So an ETA could be from 5 minutes if everything works out, to 5 hours. Writing software is not exactly like baking a pie where you set the timer and come back later. It’s like baking a pie where you don’t quite know the recipe, have heard from your flour supplier that the truck is on its way, you’ve sent your retarded half cousin to the grocery store with monopoly money to obtain it and have 8 sales people out on the street with signs “25 cents a slice” while the cherry tree you need for the filling won’t produce fruit for the next 3 months.

So for all of you ETA givers, this pic is for you.