So I sat down to record today and I realized that the recording didn’t seem to be actually recording my voice and I was really struggling to figure out why and I started spelunking into different software settings and I’ve already had some issues with some of my hardware here and eventually it occurred to me oh wait you need to have the microphone plugged in in order for the computer to actually record it.

Anyway this is not what you think it is this is your daily list not your daily Lex right so I had a very odd moment when I was listening to your daily Lex a couple of days ago Lex your friend and mine had said he was going to go on vacation and I thought to myself you know wouldn’t it be fun if somebody sat in for him for the time that he was gone and then I thought because this is how I am oh wouldn’t be fun for me to sit in with him for him for the time that he was gone and then I thought oh wow that actually works really well because YDL could be your daily list instead of your daily Lex and I quickly realized I don’t think I have enough to talk about to cover one day much less many days and I expressed this to Lex and I think I probably made a recording of your daily Lex where he said a couple of people said basically the same thing and where we landed was well maybe I could do just one episode just for funsies and here we are and then that led to a whole different world of problems which is what terrible things can I say about the Philadelphia Eagles or New Jersey or really any of the things that Lex holds near and dear to his heart while basically he’s a captive audience and I have many things I could say about all of that but I thought no no no even though the New York Giants are the best football team in the world even if they’re not the most winning and even though New Jersey is but the stepchild of the better state which is New York I’m not gonna say those things instead what I’ll tell you about it’s something I enjoy because everyone likes being happy right so my family and I recently traveled and we were on a very long vacation longest one we’ve ever taken actually and we were in a place that the cellular service for whatever reason was trash it was trash everywhere it was trash near the big city and we were in it was trash far away from the big city we were in and for the life of me I still don’t understand why this was not a remote city in the middle of nowhere there’s a very populated city I don’t know if it’s because you know our phones were roaming or something who knows but our cellular service was garbage the internet was a bygone conclusion from another time we just we could barely get on the internet and I think because of that what ended up happening to my wife Aaron and myself is that our phones our iPhones were quickly quickly quickly losing all of their battery I’m being a bit hyperbolic here but certainly quicker than I expected these batteries were draining and when you’re out and about in a place that you’re not used to a lot of people will carry around big honking you know portable batteries and I just don’t love doing that it’s it’s something I can do when I have done but it’s not my favorite and I had the rare stroke of brilliance before we left and I thought you know what what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna bring the Apple MagSafe battery pack which I bought kind of on a lark for my podcast that I record with friends the accidental tech podcast and neither of my two co-hosts wanted one and I thought how well for a hundred bucks pin for penny and for a pound I’ll go ahead and buy it and I got to tell you I love this thing it is a magnetic battery pack and I know that there are other battery packs from other third parties that are both bigger and you know provide more charge and so on and so forth but what I really love about the Apple MagSafe battery pack which they don’t make anymore unfortunately is that it’s very very slim and it has of course you know some integration with with iOS such that when you plug the battery pack where I shouldn’t say plug it in when you when you magnetically attach the battery pack to the back of your phone it’ll show a little animation showing you how charged the battery pack is and how charged the phone is and you can always swipe over to like control center or whatever it is in order to check on this but charging state of the battery pack and it’s just it’s just a really nice experience and I found that you know this one MagSafe battery pack when alternating between our two phones could charge us enough both phones to get us through the remainder of the day and I just thought that was really cool and and I really hope that Apple brings this thing back especially with USB C because the one I have is so old it uses lightning and I have mostly forbidden lightning from my life at this point and this is just one of the few ways in which it still lingers and that’s really too bad and you know what else lingers Lex he’ll be back soon but for now this was your daily list Lex