I've got 4 barstools with an oversized door myself, but it's all piled up with aging PC components in the basement. My crafty wife made this here fancy built-in unit.

Hmm. What stops you from just buying a desk that fits your style?
Budget?

These shelf brackets, screwed at every possible interval into the wall studs:


Add whatever board you can scrounge, maybe yank the desktop off the old desk you're shitcanning.
Leaves the floor nice and clear around the desk, and you can usually get another shelf or two above the main work table.

Yay!

Dragged along to Divergent. Embarrassed to say I didn't hate it. Super contrived premise, makes you wonder how the events of the film don't happen every day. Nice VFX work fucking up my city. Young adult fare, better than both Twilight and Hunger Games Part 1. I'd have to watch it again to give it a proper review, but I can't say I'm sufficiently motivated.

Oh yeah, I remember that one. I hope they change the ending...

Loved it. Best part:

I'm with you, and I like your choice of words: *more* fantasy. If you want a hard science fiction time-travel story, you have to acknowledge that every indication we have from real, known science is that time travel is impossible. Ergo: all time travel stories have a fantasy element.
I'll go further and assert that the sci-fi/fantasy dichotomy is false. Films like 2001:ASO steer powerfully towards sci-fi-- but there's the whole monolith element, clearly fantastic. Pure, hard science tends to bore people, evidence DeGrasse-Tyson's issues with the 'science' of the goings on in Gravity. I'm trying to think of a sci-fi movie that completely avoids all fantasy tropes. I think we tend to categorize them as "reality." If Apollo 13 hadn't been for reals: rock-hard sci-fi. Space Cowboys? The version of Sunshine we should have gotten?

You know what they say about a guy with big hands.?

Put me down for Deep Impact meets Cloverfield.

I'm a beleaguer.