http://moryce.ca/ Recent content on Matthew Morycinski Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 12 May 2025 14:47:30 -0700 http://moryce.ca/about/about/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 http://moryce.ca/about/about/ Maciej (Matthew) Morycinski retired from being an industrial automation technologist, to pursue creative interests and hobbies. Born in Poland, he now lives in Canada, in the province of British Columbia, city of Burnaby. His blog aims to entertain, educate, maybe provoke reflection. You can e-mail him at: m at tt dot moryce dot ca Your critical remarks are welcome as much as praise. Thanks for reading! http://moryce.ca/license/license/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://moryce.ca/license/license/ Creative writing content: Copyright © Maciej Morycinski, 2023. Software content: generated by Hugo under Apache 2.0 License Theme: Mainroad, a Hugo theme released under GPL V.2 License Additional software content and styling is released under GPL V.2 License, quoted below: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. http://moryce.ca/post/spiritual-life/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 http://moryce.ca/post/spiritual-life/ Dear reader, I have a confession to make. Many years ago, I met a high school friend. Her name I will keep to myself. She was a strong, dare I say fanatical, believer in the Catholic religion. Once, in an emotional conversation, she simply said “God loves you Matthew!” It must have been said at the right time and place because the orbs of my inner world suddenly started to turn. http://moryce.ca/post/lems-books/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 http://moryce.ca/post/lems-books/ As a young person, I loved science-fiction. My favourite writer was a famous Polish author Stanisław Lem. He is not as well known in English-speaking countries. However, many of his books were translated into multiple languages, including English. One of his novels, “Solaris,” was made into a movie, first in the USSR by Tarkovsky (1972), and later in the USA by Sodebergh (2002). Lem was not entirely a science-fiction writer. He actually gave up writing in standard science-fiction genre quite early. http://moryce.ca/family-trivia/family-trivia/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 http://moryce.ca/family-trivia/family-trivia/ My Mom’s great-grandfather — on her father’s father’s side — has set up the original Institute for Smallpox Vaccination in Warsaw, when Poland was still partitioned between Russia, Austria and Germany. It was a very successful family business, popular because the occupying power (Russia) did not provide a public vaccination service. My other great-grandfather — on my maternal grandmother’s side — was Russian. He travelled to Russia during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and subsequently died in one of Stalin’s purges. http://moryce.ca/post/beginnings/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 http://moryce.ca/post/beginnings/ Grandpa’s typewriter was my first writing instrument. Using it had advantages over scribbling. There was no need to learn to hold a pen, no risk of smearing. It even held the paper for me. The resulting text was usually perfectly legible, as long as the reader overlooked a few words that were X-ed out. Of course, I had to learn to read first! – at least well enough to be able to recognize characters shown on keys.