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Heat is not energy*, at least not useful energy.

FU! Welcome to Finland. I'll let you wait outside, while you reconsider how useful heat is...

The Finnish Meteorolical Institute has a good overview. Finland and Alaska sound like they have about the same climate, and I would imagine that Alaska has harsher weather than the US average.

N.B. I live in Australia, so 'extremely large cap' means 100+ GB.

I live in Finalnd, so 'extremely large cap' means this.

Compared to his homeland, he'll probably find the weather here pleasantly warm.

Yes. Many people here do not seem to realize that Linus has publicly stated that he never liked the coldness and darkness of Helsinki. And Portland is warmer; compare these statistics, for example.

(...)in countries like Finland where everyone has different sets of tires for summer and winter.
I'm sure they though of it. If Hydro-Quebec wants to use the car localy, They better use winter tires...

check the weather for Montreal and Quebec and compare with Finland or with Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland

With temperature of between -5 degrees (Celsius) and -30, you'll sure need to heat the room ! :)

Your comic looks magnificent! It's very beautiful.

Thanks! Another odd thing is that some illiterate moron modified my original, substantiated criticism as 0, Troll. Thus, I'll risk losing what little karma I've got left to once more mention my quite unique and totally non-commercial online graphic novel which IMNSHO mediates true hacker spirit much better than badly drawn bad jokes.

- comic_not

Why do people publish comics that are so badly drawn that it defies description? Ok, Dilbert is not a hallmark of technical proficiency either but at least it obeys the K.I.S.S. principle, and it works. People that can draw comics as good as the one above come thirteen in a dozen - heck, even my 8 years old daughter draws comics that are of higher quality. To make the point that I'm not just another badmouthing neophyte, I'd like to shamelessly recommend my own online comic, The Sixth Seal. It is a good example of a comic drawn by a visually oriented hacker who puts in as much effort as some of his peers put in software development, with the same ultimatum that only quality matters.

Is this thing an orphan?

Kari Hurtta at the Finnish Meteorological Institute has been maintaining a patched version of Elm for a while; here's a page with his patches.