So I got home and my roommates thought they were being clever and rearranged the living room. I get it… They wanted to have the couch so it was looking directly at the wall where the video gets projected.

However to do this they:

1) Threw my projector on top of a bunch of stools and flipped it upside down so that they could stick the couch in front of the projector… (It had been on the ground in order to get the full wall to be used for projector). Not to mention how safe I feel that that nobody will sneeze and knock over the tower of stuff that is holding my $2500 projector up.

2) Moved the couches into a place that totally eliminates the possibility for me to have my computer in the same room as the projector.

Now this was one of my main things when I moved in. Must have the ability to have my computer within an exact proximity of the projector and stereo and the ability to have a chair in front of it that can rotate and watch the TV.

I suppose since my desktop has been out of commission for awhile they have simply forgotten that I needed those things, but just last night I acquired something that Should let me hook up my desktop again. Once it is running I will need to have a f’n chair to use my computer.

Okay so fine, they forgot about the desktop and a chair. Fair enough. However I have already told them on more than one occasion why I can’t move the projector up off the ground. Seems that nobody was listening.

A projector spits out a specific angle when you shoot the beam forward. If you go and throw it up on a tower it will still be outputting at the same angle, which means it will be displaying the picture Mostly on the floor. To fix that you tilt the front of the projector up at an angle.

However when you do that it makes it go into a trapezoid shape where the top of the shape gets much smaller in order to compensate for being tilted at an angle.

This means to make your picture a rectangle again you need to go in and crop it to the smallest point of the trapezoid. Also noting that if we were to tilt up the projector up as high as it needs to go the fan would get in the way.

Now they didn’t notice because they were playing a super-wide screen blue-ray movie. Which means that despite most of the projection angle being on the ground they are still getting most of the picture towards the bottom of the wall. However they basically cut down the size of my tv by about 3 feet (and made it so i can’t watch it and work on my computer).

I almost went out there this morning and grabbed my computer, projector and ps3 and moved them into my room.

However I did not because I’m sure they were too stoned to realize they did either of these things… but still I will feel like a dick telling them they need to change it back.

Now IF we could hang the projector from the ceiling it wouldn’t be on the floor and the dog wouldn’t be getting in front of the beam. Still couldn’t have the couch there, but we can’t put the projector on the ceiling because there is a giant fan/light on the ceiling. If we could do that and flip it upside down it would project at the same angle that it did on the floor and would cover the entire wall still.

So I am at a quandary. I am rarely let things annoy me for longer than an hour, but nothing I say about this will make them happy (move stuff back, move it into my room, shove couch forward another 4 feet which is blindingly close so i can have room for a chair behind the couch and cut down size of picture by 3′ etc.. etc…. ). No matter what I do or say I will be the one causing the problem, and it’s total BS.

Update: Still not moved back. Roommates have agreed to remove the fan so projector can be on ceiling and say I can move the couch as needed when I build my computer desk and add a chair.