Now that some PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been restored and you’re once again enjoying online gaming and entertainment, we’re happy to provide details about the “Welcome Back” appreciation program for customers in North America. We developed the program as an expression of our gratitude for your patience, support and continued loyalty during the service outage. From all of us at PlayStation, thank you and welcome back!

This package will be made available to all existing registered PlayStation Network and Qriocity users in North America (US and Canada), and will be made available shortly after we have fully restored the service. More specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live.

All PlayStation Network customers can select two PS3 games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

• Dead Nation
• inFAMOUS
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Stardust HD
• Wipeout HD + Fury

For PSP owners, you will be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

• LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
• ModNation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

• A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
• 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
• Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
• Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
• Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
• To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

We’d like to thank all of our publishing and development partners who’ve contributed to the Welcome Back program, including Bigbig Studios, Codeglue, Digital Leisure, Guerilla Games, Heavy Water, Housemarque, Lockwood, Loot, Mass Media, Media Molecule, SCE Cambridge Studios, SCE Studio Liverpool, SCE San Diego Studios, and Sucker Punch Productions. We couldn’t have created such a compelling package without them!

As a reminder, you will be able to access the above content shortly after services are fully restored. We are doing everything we can to make that happen as soon as possible. Please visit the following sites for more information about the Welcome Back program in Europe and Latin America.

Thank you again for your support!

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Got BHK her Birthday present a month early - a green DS lite, with a copy of treasure world. Bugah got a copy too - it's a pretty addictive game, and it's fun to drive around listening for found "treasure" while sightseeing areas you might otherwise not go.

Bugah got me back into playing with the PSP, too. MediaGo is a great improvement over the old media player/data transfer. Put a few episodes of the wire on the PSP for the Sleep Study coming up.

Scheduled my sleep study in about a week - new CPAP will be soon to follow. It'll be the first night since we got married that BHK and I won't be in the same bed. I doubt I'll sleep very easily without her nearby.

1 year ago - garry's mod, pickle pictures, love cube repairs, birthdays coming

2 years ago - Williamsburg dream, BHK, Amy & I dine at the in-laws, more gaming, start my BGG account

3 years ago - Japan's underground photography, free wifi attractive nuisance, 2nd life updates, tough times in the congo, fishbone, ape-o-naut doodle / gays in space

4 years ago - A/c unhappy, Lisa/Lisa plans, Jacques the Monkey, Candice fickle, shots, Tom Waits, Abandoned amusement and theme parks, grumping, "shut it", mallah and the brain

5 years ago - monkey doodle, palm pictures from the bus, lavender-newt, notes from the road, atm jam, CoH, lj-flower, monkey yawn

6 years ago - palm doodles, power-outage, all consuming, power of burqas, sonic bullets

7 years ago - some day tripping, cool squirrel, Belgium is a myth, tongue-trimming, lj hot-or-not, Life imitates Real Genius!!!

8 years ago - overtired & grumpy, cockaigne, evil news, flash, evil news

9 years ago - wanting to go on a group outing, discover marquee

Last night, we decided to try out a place that just opened up - Bilvil. It wasn't what I was expecting - the subname is "A Beachfront Cafe".. I somehow expected more coffee and casual fare.

Oddball hours, closed on Tuesday... from the outside, the place looks clean, fresh and new! I look forward to taking the wife there tonight... when it's open!

We returned the following night, Wednesday.

The setting was nice, if a little noisy.... estimate that the place was about 1/2 to 2/3 full at 25 people sitting.

There's a limited menu right now - they opened right at the top of March 2008. Two weeks in, and the dust is pretty well settled, though.

The roasted beet salad with feta cheese and walnuts was tasty (My wife's favorite part of the meal!), as was the citrus salad, made with oranges, grapefruit, watercress, broccoli, cauliflower and mustard dressing.

The main course for my wife was the pork loin and beans/greens combo... maybe a bit over-savory. my Crab cake was really fantastic, however - it was a good size and the fried potatoes and broccoli went well with it.

The dessert left a little bit to be desired. choice of three when we went - carrot cake, crustless cheesecake and chocolate mousse.

we both went for the carrot cake - no raisins... but maybe no flour, either. It has a nice taste, and was dense... with an a rubbery / fleshy texture.

There was nice wine list, and a fair selection of beer.

Our cost was about $80 for the two of us, there's a way to combine three items (in our case, salad, main course, and dessert) for a set cost of about $32 each, before drinks.

I think that they'll be a place worth hitting regularly, if the price comes down a bit, and the menu expands some... for now, it's off to a nice start, and I look forward to seeing it grow.

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Sometimes, I see a flicker in my vision in front of me - where I'm walking, and I wonder if it's a future image of myself passing that spot. I wonder if I'd feel the same way if I saw the flicker behind me... would I think that light reflecting off my jacket was just slow to catch up?

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I'm really getting into playing loco roco in the mornings... levels are short enough to do on the bus... and I think my newest unlock (the black one with the little tooth buds, lower right ) has some awesome music and reminds me a bit of pyewacket. I do my journal writing on the ride home, generally, unless I really want to polish off a round. Themini-games aren't bad, but the meat is the primary puzzles. However, now I'm near a net-hotspot, and the PSP has streaming radio these days, a journaling I shall go. (see also)

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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta are now claiming to have identified and located the speech center of the chimpanzee brain. Lead by Jared Taglialatela, the team used a PET scan to image activity in the brains of three chimps after doing two tasks. In one, the chimps asked for food by making grunts and other noises. In another they passed rocks out of their cages in exchange for food. The former activity lit up a specific area of the chimp's brains that the latter did not.

So what does this all mean? Simply put, it means that as soon as some scientist decides to experiment with aiming a gamma ray cannon at that hemisphere of a chimpanzee's brain, we're only a few thousand years away -- max -- of Charlton Heston screaming "It was Earth all along!" in front of the ruined fragments of Statue of Liberty. Great. Thanks again, science.

What Separates You From Chimps [Live Science]

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50 things I've done meme continues tomorrow with 27.

Instead, a quickie - answer in 3 words -

1. Where is your cell phone?

on my belt

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?:
is my wife

( Read more... )

I'm sleepy. g'nite, dear journal.

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1 year ago - Taco dinner, bhk edit, relaxing at home, doggie videos, bhk marine museum article from 13 years ago

2 years ago - walkies at a carnival with pix, Yanni beats folks up,

3 years ago - ren-fest trip w/pictures, Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age

4 years ago - Newt-vet pics, Carpathian undead, radar on chip, Aerial Recon Archives, exorcist in 30 secs (by bunnies), punctuation meme

5 years ago - Gali sends me fan mail from Israel, ape music in my mind

6 years ago - playing the numbers, the bolters, euphemism generator, lj-reflink-list. (including 6 degrees), being romantic, superman 2, magic item poll, street signs of the world

7 years ago - filepile, interview, SQL issues, Kung fu Oz, CJ & Herman - part 2