title: Cham-Pain
author: neverenoughjam
fandom: The Office
type: Humor
pairing: Jim/Pam, Ensemble
rating: PG/T
warnings: Alcohol use by adults and mild sexual innuendo
spoilers: Follows "Niagara" in Season Six.
summary: After all the pranking Jim and Pam have done to Michael over the years, karma pays them back at their wedding reception.
disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.

( We should have rented the whole room... )

....this is what I would want from Santa.

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title: Patience
author: neverenoughjam
fandom: The Office
rating: T
pairing: Jim/Pam
genre: romance
summary: Jim's odd behavior over the summer rouses suspicion in Pam.
disclaimer: These are not my characters. They belong to NBC and Greg Daniels.



( How had it all gone wrong? )

title: Superheroes
author: neverenoughjam 
fandom: The Office
pairing: ensemble
rating: K or PG
spoilers: Through end of Season Four.
warnings: none
summary: During a lazy afternoon, the Dunder Mifflinites kill time by deciding which superpowers they'd like to have. This is pure fluff, no angst or drama involved.
disclaimer: These are not my toys.

 

Once again I am stealing an interesting survey from my friend laslohollyfeld  , who stole it from others. I think these are fun, even if only for me.

( Ten Things )

I'm ridiculously addicted to surveys like this. I stole today's survey from my friend laslohollyfeld, who says he stole it from swayinisdancin .

I am not crazy about the idea of paying for expensive upgrades every few years for the software I use to do my writing. I'm even less enthusiastic about the idea of those upgrades making it impossible or difficult to open and edit files I created only five years ago. So for a long time I've been using open source software, bypassing Microsoft and Adobe and other big software developers. I don't even use much of Apple's software, mainly because Apple has stopped maintaining Appleworks, which used to be a pretty good little package.

However, I'm also spoiled. I don't want to give up those features I like. So I don't want to use some piece of software that does maybe five of the fifty things Word can do. What do I turn to?

Until this week I was an enthusiastic devotee of OpenOffice. This open source software works just fine on Windows and Linux, and pretty well on Mac (I use, in one typical business day, all three of those operating systems). OpenOffice contains a word processor that works almost identically to Word, can open, edit and save Word .doc files with ease, and includes an Excel spreadsheet clone, a drawing program, a database program, and a presentation program that can open PowerPoint files just fine. There are a few things it does not do well--master documents are a mess, for example, and the List Number function is as screwed up as Word's. But for the money ($00.00), you can't beat it.

Or so I thought. The one thing I didn't care for in OpenOffice for the Mac is that you have to have X11 running in order to use OpenOffice. Not a really big deal, since X11 ships with all flavors of Mac OS X. Install it from the DVD, and you're good. To run OpenOffice, you doubleclick the icon just as you would any other application. It loads the X11 window and then loads OpenOffice. Piece of cake. However, having to wait while it loads the X window, and having the menu bar in the window instead of at the top of the screen, Mac-style, can start to grate after awhile. It's not a big deal, more like having a stone in your shoe, but it's annoying.

So I was delighted to find NeoOffice. It's a port of OpenOffice to the Mac OS X platform. It has an Aqua-like interface, with all those little touches I come to expect on a Mac: 3-D, colored icons, the menu at the top of the screen, etc. Best of all, you don't need X11 to run it. Doubleclick the icon, and it launches. It's a clean, pretty, functional interface, and has a few features the bare-bones OpenOffice does not. For example, there's a grammar checker. This is a feature of Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) that Apple added, and this release of NeoOffice uses it. I haven't used it yet but it's a great idea.

Anyway, for any readers who write on a Mac and are on a limited budget, I can heartily recommend NeoOffice. It is a free download, easy to install, and as easy to use as Word or OpenOffice. And since it is an open source project, the file formats are not proprietary and will be good for years to come. Good news for those of us who are slow writers. :)

This dog just kills me.

Stolen from laslohollyfeld, who stole it from somebody else. Go blame him.

( Clickitty click )

title: Hope
fandom: Moonlight
author: neverenoughjam
rating: PG-13
warnings: None
spoilers: None
summary: Mick muses about Beth and his own nature
disclaimer: These characters belong to CBS, not me.
author's note: My attempt at a little Moonlight fic. Just some of Mick's thoughts on who he is, and the devastating effect of having Beth in his life.

 

title: lullaby
author: neverenoughjam
fandom: The Office (US)
pairing: Jim/Pam, Dwight, Cousin Mose
word count: 3900
rating: T (teen) for suggestive situations
complete: yes
warning: spoilers through episode 4 of Season 4
spoilers: through episode 4 of season 4
summary: Jim, Pam, a Bed and Breakfast, and things that go beep in the night. Humor, snuggling, and singing ensue.
disclaimer: These are not my characters. They belong to NBC, Reveille Studios, and assorted other entities. I am only borrowing them for the sake of some fun entertainment. No infringement is intended.

title: Breathe
author: neverenoughjam    
fandom: The Office
rating: T or PG-13
warning: Mention of a terrible disaster; does not directly involve the characters.
pairing: Jim/Pam
word count: 2545
summary: Jim has a bad dream. Pam comforts him.
disclaimer: These are not my characters.

Title: Chuck vs. the Eavesdropper
Author: neverenoughjam
Rating: Teen
Fandom: Chuck
Pairing: Chuck/Sarah, Casey
Spoilers: None
Warning: Sexual situation.
Summary: Casey bugs Chuck's bedroom, but can he believe everything he hears?

 

 

neverenoughjam

title: Everyday
author: neverenoughjam
pairing: Jim/Pam
spoilers: none
warning: none
summary: Vignette of Jim and Pam in the future. No angst, no sex, just fluff.
disclaimer: These characters belong to NBC, not me.
author's note: I posted this a while ago on another site, and for some reason forgot to put it here. I wrote this before "The Job" aired, so parts of it don't quite connect with current canon. Maybe this should be labeled AU?  Let me know what you think.

title: Eclipse
author: neverenoughjam 
rating: T or PG-13, depending on your system
fandom: The Office, US
pairing/characters: Jim/Pam
warnings/spoilers: none
word count: 2521
summary: Pure, undiluted Jam fluff. Jim, Pam, the moon, and a decision that will surprise no one.
disclaimer: These are not my toys. I own nothing but a burning desire to write about them.

 

title: Positive
author: neverenoughjam
rating: PG-13 or T
fandom: The Office, US
spoilers: Through "The Job"
pairing: Michael/Jan
disclaimer: Not mine. Never were. Never gonna be.
summary: Jan ponders the result of a medical test.

 

title: Operations
author: neverenoughjam 
fandom: The Office, US/Scrubs
characters: Jim, Pam, Michael, Andy, Dr. Cox, Laverne, JD, Elliott, Janitor, Ted and the a capella group, Todd.
rating: PG
warnings: medical humor
spoilers: through "The Return"
author's note: This story takes place after "The Return" in season three.
disclaimer: These toys are not mine.
 

 

There has been a tremendous disturbance in The Force lately, stemming from the outrage of some fanfic writers and fans over the debut of FanLib, the new fanfiction forum. A lot of heat and angst is being generated over the idea that a) someone is making a profit off of fanfic writers and b) this is making those writers more vulnerable to copyright infringement suits. I was invited to join FanLib and accepted their invitation. I'd like to respond to these concerns.

First, I've never been under the illusion that I could make money off my fanfic, so I'm not upset at the idea that someone is "stealing" my profits. There were never going to be any profits to steal. As far as I'm concerned, it was a straight-up business proposition: FanLib hosts my stories and gains me a wider audience, and they make a few pennies off of banner ads. It's not like I was going to be making any money anyway, or that FanLlib is going to be rolling in dough. They're not Google, they're a tiny little Internet startup.

Second, I don't care what FanLib's Terms of Service say, I am not afraid of a copyright infringement suit, because lawyers file lawsuits to make money or stop someone else from making money. Period. Since I am not making money, I have no "deep pockets" to go after. By the terms of my agreement with FanLib, I don't make a dime. So while some folks are saying that I'm being "cheated" out of the fruits of my creative endeavors, it might also be argued that I am actually protected from copyright infringement suits by virtue of the fact that I am NOT making money. Given the choice of suing FanLib or suing me, the lawyer will go after FanLib, every time. Despite the wording of their dubious TOS, FanLib is actually taking all the risk, IMO. Although FanLib's TOS says they'll pass on their attorney costs to me, so what? I have nothing. I risk a copyright infringement suit with every fanfic I post; FanLib's TOS does not change that.

So if I'm not making money, why did I accept FanLib's invitation? As a writer, I welcome an opportunity for more readers to find my work. I considered that FanLib, with its high profile and wide advertising, would make it easier for readers to discover stories that they would otherwise have to search the nooks and crannies of the Internet to find. We may think it's child's play to find fanfic online, but for newbies it is not that easy. FanLib is a high-profile portal.

Like any other commercial endeavor, FanLib will stand or fall by how well it has judged its audience. Some say it is wildly off target. Maybe it is. Only time will tell. In the meantime, why not treat it as the experiment that it is? Fanfic fandom usually supports experiments, even those we don't initially agree with.

For other reactions to this controversy, I like hossgal's discussion of fan reaction on her LJ site; she is not a defender of FanLib but has interesting things to say about the kerfluffle.

title: Compass
author: neverenoughjam 
fandom: The Office
characters: Jim/Pam
rating: K or PG, whichever one you're going by
spoilers: through end of Season 3
summary: Obligatory first date fic.
disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. They belong to NBC.

Not to start a long, acrimonious debate, but my main thought since the Virginia Tech shootings hit the news has been: what if those students had been armed?