Rocket scientists, nuclear physicists, overhead projector engineers; these are probably the most intelligent people on the planet.  Everything they create is on a much higher level than any of us can imagine.  Rocket scientists send stuff into space.  Nuclear physicists do stuff with fusion.  And probably the most complicated job ever to be created, the overhead projector engineer, attempts to help us peons see things big.  Sadly, I believe they have failed.

The Evolution of the Overhead Projector

While it is obvious that overtime the overhead projector engineers have attempted to redesign their product to be usable, perhaps all is for not.  We will never be able to discover how these devices work.  We are forever destined to read things in their original un-projected and not-overhead format.

What is that you say?  You say that this device is quite simple to operate?  That can't be right.  I don't believe you.  Why not?  Because I have yet to see anyone avoid the immense struggle of attempting to operate an overhead projector.  Let me elaborate...

Upon entering my first years of schooling in the early nineties, I often saw my teachers in a constant battle with the overhead projector.  The images were always blurry or too small.  They cranked on knobs, pushed on buttons, and swung the entire device in circles to no avail.  It seemed this device was just far too advanced for that of elementary school teachers.

By the time I entered middle school, many great things happened in human history.  Computers became a mainstay in American homes, scientists laid the foundations of string theory, and we cloned a sheep.  Yet, still, no advancement on how to work an overhead projector.  Again I saw and endless struggle between teachers and these machines.

I was naive.  I believed that these things had to be simple to use.  Into high school I went and again I was proven wrong.  Teachers continued their never-ending encounter with the most complicated device ever produced.  Daily I watched the epic battle between man and machine unfold.  It could not be my teachers stupidity, how could they all be so ignorant of a device that has existed for decades?  No, it must be that the overhead projector is just too complicated.

The millennium came and went.  We reached Mars, mapped the human genome, and the internet became an integral part of life.  I entered college in hopes of a bright future.  Here is where I would interact with the greatest minds in the world.  Here is where all the problems would be solved.  All of them, I learned, except that of how to operate an overhead projector.  These people have PHDs in Math, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Political Science, Philosophy, and still no hope was found.  Somewhere, the inventor of this infernal machine is laughing, because they have managed to create a device that outwits even the top minds in the world.  I look at these people.  I watch as the overhead projector defeats them and I wonder, what hope is there for someone like me?

And that, my friend, is why I don't believe you... why I don't believe the overhead projector is a simple device.  It can't be.  It just can't.  What type of a world would we live in if such a simple device eluded even the brightest of people?  What doom would lay before us if we lost all hope in the best of the best?  I don't know and I don't want to know.